Quotes About Inspiration

I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music.

One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.

My parents and my older brother played. You kind of want to do what your family does. They were on the court. I'm like, 'I want to be on the court, too.'

Jeff was the coolest, hippest older brother I could ever dream for.

My older brother was always in the gym, and I saw how hard he worked. Around middle school, I was in there with him, and I started to love it. But it wasn't like I had a basketball in my hand at age 2.

I've always like 'Dragonball Z' and 'Naruto,' that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing 'Dragonball Z' characters and so I got into it from there.

When you play with the older people it helps you mentally, because they're bigger and stronger than you. You have to live up to that.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

I come from quite a heavy matriarchal family, and my older sister was a huge influence on me.

Aaliyah has been an artist I've grown up with, like an older sister.

I've always been drawn to older women.

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.

I think younger women need older women to get where they need to be. I think women turn out the best work in the world.

It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

I grew up with 2 older brothers, the oldest of which was big into film. Hanging around him got me seeing so much good stuff at an early age. Maybe a 10-year-old should not be watching 'Boyz N the Hood' like 10 times in a row? I don't know. But it probably shaped me in some way.