All Quotes

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.
‐‐ Robert Schumann

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.
‐‐ Sanya Richards-Ross

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.
‐‐ Christian Kane

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'
‐‐ Alexandra Shipp

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.
‐‐ Steven Rodney McQueen

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
‐‐ August Wilson

My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.
‐‐ John Trudell

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
‐‐ Tracey Ullman

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
‐‐ David Steinberg

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
‐‐ Madhur Bhandarkar

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.
‐‐ Mel Torme

My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.
‐‐ David L. Wolper

My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing up, told me that I looked like Charlie Chaplin. That didn't really resonate with me when I was younger - I hadn't seen a lot of his films.
‐‐ Rob McClure

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
‐‐ John Howe

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
‐‐ Oliver E. Williamson

My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.
‐‐ Sascha Radetsky

My inner child is not wounded.
‐‐ Shannen Doherty

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
‐‐ Mary Garden

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
‐‐ Frederick W. Smith

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.
‐‐ Richard Diebenkorn

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
‐‐ Enrique Iglesias

My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.
‐‐ Craig McDean

My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.
‐‐ Brenda Russell

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

My inspiration comes from so many things, it is hard to give credit to one. I find music of all kinds to be a great inspiration. A melody or a lyric can fire my imagination. Exercise is another. Endorphins fuel my thoughts - I tend to work out scenes and dialogue when I am exercising. Reading is also a great inspiration.
‐‐ Julia London

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
‐‐ Kailash Kher

My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
‐‐ Patricia MacLachlan

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.
‐‐ Lois Greenfield

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
‐‐ Jenni Rivera

My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
‐‐ Raf Simons

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.
‐‐ John Lydon

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
‐‐ Nomar Garciaparra

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything. I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
‐‐ Jason Wu

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

My Instagram is all me. I like to keep it very personal, and I'd like to keep it that way. You don't really follow to see promotional things at all times. It's my connection with my fans.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner