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

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

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
Justin Timberlake

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

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
Sidney Altman

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis

Love is one of my main inspirations.
Enrique Iglesias

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

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
Anne Tyler

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
Sophie Kerr

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
George Gershwin

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel