Inspired Quotes

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.