Quotes About Inspiration

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

Light, to me, stands for Living In Gods Heavenly Thoughts. That's a good place to live. That is what influenced me to tell stories in light and that happened to be movies and plays.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.