Quotes About Inspiration

Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

10 Summers isn't just a label, it's a lifestyle.

I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.

I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.

I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'

When I reached the summit of Everest, I scooped some ice into my drinking bottle as I'd run out of water and hoped it would melt. After I got back to base camp, I decided to keep it, so I had a special bottle made with an inscription - it's my lucky water.

To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.

I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.

I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'