Best 153 quotes in «originals quotes» category

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

She's the original good time who was had by all.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

The most original novelist now writing in English.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

There are more copies than originals among people.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

The really blisteringly original games are incredibly simple.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

True creativity is fresh, but not always original.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

We had a lot of rehearsals for the original Twilight to get the family to learn each other and experience each other, so we could all be like a family. We spent a lot of time together.

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.

When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.