Inspired Me Quotes

129 Inspired Me quotes by 123 unique authors

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school. — Flavor Flav
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts, from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,… — Lebbeus Woods
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I… — Caroline Kennedy
I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that we’re going… — Jon Foreman
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself. — Maria Sharapova
Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the… — Ronald Reagan
I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired… — Unknown Author
I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to… — Justin Long
So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get… — George J. Mitchell
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… — Hermann Hesse
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple… — Denton Cooley
Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it… — Elizabeth Edwards
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well,… — Patricia Reilly Giff
I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to… — David Nail
I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though. — Logan Lerman
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced… — Otis Rush
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. — Dan Simmons
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent
There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor… — Alfred Molina
Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party;… — Charlie Crist
Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and… — Evel Knievel
Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself. — Lesley Garrett
I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a… — Tulsi Gabbard
Blank paper has always inspired me. — Daniel Handler
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston

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