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. Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.
Bob Woodward
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.
David Hume
#9. 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
#10. You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.
Myles Munroe
#12. How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
Blaise Pascal
#13. I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.
Rahki
#14. 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
#15. There are more copies than originals among people.
Pablo Picasso
#16. 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
#17. We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.
Robert W. Bly
#18. The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
Karl Marx
#19. Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
David Cronenberg
#20. History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#21. How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
Blaise Pascal
#22. The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
William Hazlitt
#23. My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.
Sarah Dessen
#24. Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.
William C. Brown
#25. 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.
#26. New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.
Toni Jerrman
#27. 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
#28. Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."
Peter Kreeft
#29. Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.
Ornette Coleman
#30. 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
#31. The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.
Shunryu Suzuki
#32. Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.
Barack Obama
#33. There is an original inside me.
Rumi
#34. I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original.
Lady Gaga
#35. 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
#36. 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
#38. 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
#39. Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.
Phyllis Diller
#40. I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
Albert Einstein
#42. 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
#43. Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.
Suzy Kassem
#44. The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].
Omari Hardwick
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.
Jim Gaffigan
#50. I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
Lorne Michaels
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. Louis Maistros has an original and dark vision, full of power.
Douglas Clegg
#56. Existence creates only originals; it does not believe in carbon copies. A
Osho
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.
George Lucas
#61. Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.
Willy Brandt
#62. 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
#63. Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals.
Mamie Smith
#64. If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
Georgia O'Keeffe
#65. Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!
John Keats
#66. Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
Hosea Ballou
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. The truly original artist invents his own signs.
Henri Matisse
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
George Stigler
#78. Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#79. 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
#80. My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.
John Lennon
#81. My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
George Soros
#83. One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
Jacob Bronowski
#84. 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
#85. My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
Sebastian Bach
#86. 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
#87. It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.
Jon Gries
#88. Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
Robert Gottlieb
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
Kenneth Clark
#92. The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
Novalis
#94. I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
Nathan Parsons
#96. We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
Edward Young
#97. There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original,
Paris Hilton
#98. There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
Edward Abbey
#99. But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon
#100. 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
