Originals Quotes · Page 42

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention…

— Melissa Manchester

When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that…

— Kehinde Wiley

Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original…

— D.T. Suzuki

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that…

— Joseph Kosinski

We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may…

— Algernon Sidney

After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones,…

— Robert Greenwald

Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility…

— Philip Kitcher

I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who…

— Maria Bartiromo

When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original…

— Girl Talk

To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.…

— Ronald Rolheiser

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

— Nancy Gibbs

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he…

— Washington Allston

Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and…

— Dogen

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an…

— Steven Knight

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's…

— Hideo Kojima

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

— Lyn Hejinian

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events,…

— William Godwin

Originality cannot be a goal. It is simply inevitable. The truly pathbreaking step can never be predicted, and certainly not by the…

— Harry Partch

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching,…

— Henri Bergson

It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it,…

— Denzel Washington

Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really…

— Ben Clymer