John Mason Brown mentioned aman named Norman Shelby as having probably inspired the phrase under his trade sobriquet of Kid McCoy.
That production has probably inspired me for about 10 years; even now, I'm probably derivative without knowing that I am.
The Lake District has probably inspired more art per square inch than anywhere else in the UK, even if William Wordsworth rather let the side down with the opening lines of his poem on Westminster bridge.
We pay them the great compliment of imagining that they're almost real: that there must be more to the story, and that characters we know so well — Elizabeth Bennet, for one, or Sherlock Holmes, who has probably inspired more sequels than any other fictional being — must have more to their lives.
Charles Waterstreet, the well-known barrister who has probably inspired a thousand private schoolboys to pursue an LLB at the University of Sydney, has been accused of sexual harassment by a young law student who briefly worked at his chambers.
That was when it occurred to me that she might have probably been inspired by the "Pushpaka Vimana" in the Ramayana (one of the two well-known Indian epics); a Flying Flowery vehicle that is used by Raavan( the bad guy) to whisk away Sita( the female protagonist) in the famous story.
I noted that his hospital bed, crammed somehow into a small cottage bedroom, had probably been inspired by the design research unit at the RCA.
All images by Luke Dyson.
Today's winged conifer seeds still have this ability – and probably inspired humans to develop helicopter designs.
The qualities I noted in that apricot are, of course, utterly antithetic to the platonic vision of an apricot, a fruit that has, in its 4,000-year 4,000-yearrobably inspired more historyle than any other.
