Inspiration Quotes
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My books are all relationship-focused, so much of my inspiration comes from my own relationships and the issues and concerns that arise among my friends and family.
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I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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I let people down easy with inspiration.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.
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As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.
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The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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We’re from Germany but we grew up with English and American music which was such a strong inspiration for the young band. Very early on, in the Seventies, we went to England and France, to Japan and America, we toured and then became an international band. I think our music was never German, it’s always had this Anglo-American influence – we never tried to be a German band! We are Germans, yes, but not in our music. When we grew up, there was schlager music, this pop music kind of thing.
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Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.
