Quotes About Inspiration

When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up. There was an active women's movement. My mother was a part of it.

Quite out of proportion to the size of the country, British children's writers swept the world in the 20th century. We should celebrate them.

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

A lot of things came out of my interest in marine biology, like the fact that there are scallops that fly in the air, and in SpongeBob's world, scallops swim the same way in the ocean.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

Do you know what I think of when I remember him? I think: He was such a kid. He taught me how to swim when I was 4 and how to ride a bike. So when I think of Martin Luther King, I think of laughter. I think of the play and the fun.

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.

I write and walk and swim and drink.

I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.

I love seeing other people swim quickly, it gives you a bit more motivation to keep pushing and get the best out of yourself.

I feel like I've got this great catalogue of songs sink or swim, it doesn't matter. If you've got that, you've got a lot.

It drives me forward knowing people are watching me and I have to swim well.

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that.

My mom was a swimmer growing up. She was World Class.

My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!

I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.