Jim Davis Quotes

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

Jim Davis

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• In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • English
  • Inspiration
  • Meaning

• My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Inspiration
  • Evolution
  • Flow

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Animal
  • Environmental

• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Fight

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Animal

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Inspiration

• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Kind
  • Powerful
  • Animal

• Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Animal
  • Invest
  • Leap

• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Experience
  • Inspiration
  • Psychology

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...

  

  Taliesin
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Sweet

• Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Weapons

• When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Music
  • History
  • Reality

• In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.

  

  William Eckhardt
  • Important
  • Decision
  • Winning

• I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

  

  Jim Davis
  • Animal
  • Inspiration
  • Stories