Quotes About Inspiration

Being vice captain of India is a really proud moment.

'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

I am better at my job for being a mother and vice versa.

There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

I find that when you grow and evolve with music, the music understands you, and vice versa - whether or not the creator of that music knows.

Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which led me to archaeology, which got me to the Middle East, which led me to international relations, which launched me on my career.

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's any karma for that.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

I think there are lots of those moments when we meet people - listeners at a meet-and-greet - and they tell us that they've changed their major to forensic science, or criminal justice, or they've become a victim's advocate.