Quotes About Inspiration

I've been in the Concorde, I've seen the curvature of the Earth, the beginning of the darkness. I want more - I want to go up there.

I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like 'Out of Darkness,' where she played a schizophrenic.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

There's the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.

Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.

I'm so proud to help put women's darts on the map.

When I started playing darts and watching more darts on TV I would say someone like Trina Gulliver definitely inspired me to carry on and keep playing.

Whatever happens in women's darts in the future I will be able to think I helped to achieve it.

I have helped darts in general.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better.

I've written with people who aren't like me, then I've written with people who totally get it. It's like a blind date, and you never know what's going to happen. But it's really cool because they learn from you, and you learn a little bit from them. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.

It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when you're going to do it. As a child, you never know the date or that one person who's going to take you to the next person, who is going to put you in position and give you that one opportunity.

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.

I had a lot of people that told me, 'Oh you're dated, or you're this or you're that or you need to be more this,' and it's kind of funny that when I stopped listening to all of that and just wrote from a place of truth everything started to fall into place for me.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

I want to be the best daughter and wife and friend and person I can be. And I want to help empower the people around me to be the best they can be.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.

I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.