Inspiration Quotes

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

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

When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.

I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

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.

If I can make it, you can make it.

If someone's lying, are their pants really on fire

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.

I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.

People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous

Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my #1 inspiration.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

I listen to old Idaho, and there are moments of true inspiration there. I think the music is speaking on its own a little bit more. It's evolving, it's not losing its heart.

I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.

Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles

I find inspiration in everything.

It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

Good is the enemy of great.

There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.