Top 100 Quotes About Inspirations
#1. She then had one of those sudden inspirations which only people of genius receive in great crises, in supreme moments which are to decide their fortunes or their lives.
Alexandre Dumas
#2. It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.
Olivia Palermo
#3. I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.
Erin Morgenstern
#4. If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.
Neil Peart
#5. The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.
Ellen G. White
#6. We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we are is simply a finely-curated catalogue of those.
Maria Popova
#7. In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.
Laura Owens
#8. To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.
Aldous Huxley
#9. To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.
William Arthur Ward
#10. Count the inspirations. The exquisite inspirations that have whispered in the night. And swum away like fish in the cool of morning. Would any of them have altered the patterns of your life? The precise arrangement of your atoms?
Jay Woodman
#11. One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.
Mick Ralphs
#12. As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
Joan D. Vinge
#13. Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale
#14. As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different [and] then have two stories mix together.
Ali Banisadr
#15. We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.
Renzo Rosso
#16. It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.
Lana Del Rey
#17. We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.
Marc Guggenheim
#18. Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
Joichi Ito
#19. Visions and words go together only when inspirations connects them!
Rossana Condoleo
#20. Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.
Fulton J. Sheen
#22. all men are different, and it is the difference between them that creates the greatness, the variety, and the creative inspirations of life, as well as the tensions of social intercourse.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#23. I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.
Thia Megia
#24. With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.
Wes Anderson
#25. The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.
Lin Brehmer
#27. Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others.
Albert Speer
#28. The walls of the rational, empirical world are famously porous. What come through are dreams, imaginings, inspirations, visions, revelations. There is no use in stooping over these with a magnifying lens.
Wendell Berry
#30. The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.
Maria Faustina Kowalska
#32. Hope fuels your inspirations while doubts assault your aspirations!
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer
Munia Khan
#34. He had great respect for a novelist like James. Pound knew about the concentration of energies required to write novels and also knew that he did not have such qualities, that his inspirations came more in flashes than in sustained work. Writing prose was difficult,
John Tytell
#35. When you conspire with your inspirations, you have a lead to success
Wogu Donald
#36. God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#37. 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
Yelawolf
#38. I've got quite a few inspirations - the list is kind of endless!
Jess Glynne
#39. I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.
Keith Haring
#40. In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.
Lana Del Rey
#41. A true leader is a person whose influence inspires people to do what is expected of them to do. You cease to be a leader when you manipulate with your egos instead of convincing by your inspirations.
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
James Martineau
#43. As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
Ed Sheeran
#44. We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but we tend to forget one very simple thing, there is small child in each one of us which is hungry for our own trust and inspirations.
Santosh Kalwar
#45. Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
Russell Simmons
#46. My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.
Hill Harper
#47. Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.
Enya
#48. I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.
Herschel Walker
#49. I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.
Hunter Hayes
#50. Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.
Lawren Leo
#51. My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one [is that] I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights [of] people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.
Ted Nugent
#52. One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
Criss Angel
#53. The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.
Josh Groban
#54. Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas ... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had ...
Neale Donald Walsch
#55. In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.
Johannes Brahms
#56. Certainly, I am inspired by those whose journeys enriches mine. I am indebted to those whose inspirations are gained through insightful reflections about life, living and legacy.
Doc Wends Cagape
#57. The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
Sophie Kerr
#58. I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
Justin Timberlake
#59. One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
Cindy Sheehan
#60. Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.
Karl Lagerfeld
#61. My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers who cause me to look at my life and behavior and encourage me to be the best person, mother, daughter, and friend that I can be.
Trista Sutter
#62. Good dreams can be inspirations to bring in to make reality fantastic enough to share
Jay Woodman
#63. My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.
Tove Lo
#64. You should work your hardest to inspire your inspirations
Mod Sun
#65. Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations.
Terry Pratchett
#66. My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
Anne Tyler
#67. But he discovered that his thoughts and inspirations were like the intimations of a dream, which always seem inspired at the time but prove utterly shallow and useless to the waking mind.
Thomas Mann
#68. The light, colors, and energy of Ibiza are constant sources of inspirations for my work. I always leave Ibiza recharged and full of ideas for new shades, looks, and products.
Charlotte Tilbury
#69. A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.
A.A. Patawaran
#70. As far as my inspirations, I just like anyone who is making good music - period.
Rahki
#71. One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
H. G. Bissinger
#72. The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
David First
#73. I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old ... so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.
Hoodie Allen
#74. Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
Nadia Ali
#75. Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.
Margaret Atwood
#76. Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.
Nita Engle
#77. 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.
Ziggy Marley
#78. One of the biggest inspirations before I started shooting came from my brother, when he texted me and said, 'Hey, fatty, it's called 'The Hunger Games', not 'The Eating Games'. So I started working out a lot more and eating a lot less.
Liam Hemsworth
#79. I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.
David Talbot
#80. I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.
Doc Brown
#81. Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.
Heather Headley
#82. What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.
Jason Schwartzman
#83. Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.
Quentin Tarantino
#84. Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
Keira Knightley
#85. We find . . . in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers, and even scientists owe some of their best ideas to inspirations . . . from the unconscious.
C. G. Jung
#86. The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!
Gerald Arpino
#88. Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis Brown
#89. Beyonce is one of my inspirations. Her attitude, her style, her voice ... she's perfect.
Charice Pempengco
#90. In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
Rachael Taylor
#91. My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations.
Trista Sutter
#92. Be the ghost of the empty streets! You shall be crowned with the touch of great inspirations!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.
Phillip Lim
#94. I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
Sinclair Lewis
#95. It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
Kelley Armstrong
#96. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
David Lynch
#98. I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.
Taylor Swift
#99. The way my mom dressed was one of my earliest inspirations, in those '80s suits with shoulder pads and things like that. For years, I ran away from that style. But now, all I want to do is shoulder pads and nipped-in waists and padded hips and peplums and poufed dresses.
Jason Wu
#100. I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
