Quotes About Inspiration

London and the surrounds are a great place to be. It is a great part of the world.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

I hope to be a source of change and inspiration to my peers, empowering them to reach out and take action that will ensure the healthy survival of all of our species and ecosystems.

Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be much larger than it actually was. It was inevitable that I would end up writing sci-fi or fantasy.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

Outside of my family, I was always inspired by true heroic stories of leadership and survival. For example, the story of the Shackleton expedition, when their ship became lodged in the Antarctic ice pack while exploring.

When I make a film about a physically challenged person, I come away with so much. I learn to value what I have. My survival instinct sharpened after 'Black' and 'Guzaarish.'

Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.

When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

Growing up in the Philippines, I wanted to be so much like my dad. He taught me simple survival stuff.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.