Quotes About Inspiration

One life is way too short to be pessimistic, so you've got to be positive and optimistic.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

In this pessimistic world, especially in America, a positive outlook is very necessary.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

All writers have their own pet commandments.

I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.

There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.

The boost in confidence that kept me going in those early days when I was at Newcastle came from Peter Beardsley.

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'

It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.