Originals Quotes · Page 58

I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity…

— Nicholas Sparks

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less…

— Jerry Gillies

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in…

— Allen W. Wood

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.

— Michele Soavi

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable…

— Ludwig Boltzmann

My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many…

— Louis Bacon

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original…

— Lou Reed

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide…

— James Young

Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen…

— Frederick Lenz

[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind…

— Eric McCormack

We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal…

— Natalie Goldberg

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church.…

— Scott Anderson

History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is…

— Tilly Bagshawe

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from…

— Robert Gordis

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden…

— Pearl S. Buck

Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of…

— Dorothy Draper

I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't…

— Girl Talk

The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are…

— Vladimir Lenin

All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over…

— Vimala Thakar

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

— Blaise Pascal

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

— Ne-Yo

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer