Top 100 Originals Quotes
#1. They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths
H.P. Lovecraft
#2. The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.
Russell Peters
#3. The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world.
Reggie Lee
#4. We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
Tommy Shaw
#5. Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.
Michael Shnayerson
#6. I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it.
Sonakshi Sinha
#7. How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
Blaise Pascal
#8. I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: 'Anthem,' by Ayn Rand; '1984,' by George Orwell; or 'Brave New World,' by Aldous Huxley.
Sara Shepard
#9. There are more copies than originals among people.
Pablo Picasso
#10. Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
Joseph Jacobs
#11. History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#12. How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
Blaise Pascal
#13. My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.
Sarah Dessen
#14. Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#15. My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
Patricia Briggs
#16. I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.
Baldur Von Schirach
#17. In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.
Imelda May
#18. It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.
Joni Mitchell
#19. I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.
David Hewson
#20. A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.
Isaac D'Israeli
#21. I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.
George R R Martin
#22. Existence creates only originals; it does not believe in carbon copies. A
Osho
#23. Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.
Chuck Zito
#25. I sometimes wish for the old days when audiences used to be ignorant of world cinema and our inspired works were seen as originals.
Yashvir Dalaya
#26. Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals.
Mamie Smith
#28. There was a time when our minds were always on a roll. We used boxes and sticks to become astronauts and artists. We created fantasy characters and outrageous worlds. We drew whimsical pictures and cooked up wild ideas. We were complete originals.
Tom Asacker
#29. Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside the box, sell your ideas, and make a difference. 10.YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. The War of Art by Steven
Vishen Lakhiani
#31. I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts.
Suzi Quatro
#32. Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
Joseph Addison
#34. Every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are tryin to be somedody else which is impossible.
Osho
#35. I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.
Tim Gane
#36. To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
Archie Shepp
#38. The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
Walt Disney
#39. My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
Sebastian Bach
#40. The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.
Emeril Lagasse
#41. Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
Robert Gottlieb
#42. He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written in verse into another language, for, with all the pains they take and all the cleverness they show, they never can reach the level of the originals as they were first produced.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#43. An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Man Ray
#44. Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
Kenneth Clark
#45. I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
Nathan Parsons
#46. We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
Edward Young
#47. But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon
#48. It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns for change but cannot imagine creating it herself....
If scapegoats feel pain, it is only the delegated pain of their originals.
Shelley Jackson
#49. People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.
George Cukor
#50. The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.
Harold Bloom
#51. There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.
Steven Soderbergh
#52. The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
John James Audubon
#53. God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.
Tony Gaskins
#55. To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)
Sophie Kinsella
#56. You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.
William Monahan
#58. I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.
Miranda Kerr
#59. Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.
Charles Caleb Colton
#60. Among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.
Thomas Jefferson
#61. These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
John Locke
#62. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. The truth about people is that there are more fakes than originals.
Saleem Sharma
#64. He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
Jeremy Collier
#65. History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#66. Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.
Bob Woodward
#67. True creativity is fresh, but not always original.
Steven Furtick
#68. Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.
David Hume
#69. You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.
Myles Munroe
#71. I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.
Rahki
#72. We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.
Robert W. Bly
#73. The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
Karl Marx
#74. Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
David Cronenberg
#75. The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
William Hazlitt
#76. Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.
William C. Brown
#77. New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.
Toni Jerrman
#78. Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.
Carey Mulligan
#79. Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."
Peter Kreeft
#80. Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.
Ornette Coleman
#81. The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.
Shunryu Suzuki
#82. Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.
Barack Obama
#83. There is an original inside me.
Rumi
#84. I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original.
Lady Gaga
#86. Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.
Phyllis Diller
#87. I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
Albert Einstein
#89. 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.
William Friedkin
#90. Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.
Suzy Kassem
#91. The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].
Omari Hardwick
#93. If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.
Kim Fowley
#94. There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
James Russell Lowell
#95. Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.
Jim Gaffigan
#96. I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
Lorne Michaels
#97. In every moment a choice exists. We can cling to the past or embrace the inevitability of change and allow a brighter future to unfold before us.
Julie Plec
#99. Louis Maistros has an original and dark vision, full of power.
Douglas Clegg
