Originals Quotes · Page 71

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

— John Landis Mason

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

— Gottfried Leibniz

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

— Mark Twain

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

— Ann Landers

I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a…

— Deborah Smith

Blood Brothers! I've always wanted to play Linda and when I'm old enough, Mrs. Johnston. I would love it if Cameron Mackintosh…

— Francesca Jackson

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

— Neil Simon

The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.

— Phyllis Diller

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a…

— George Santayana

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

— John Lennon

Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's…

— Anna Wintour

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

— Jim Jarmusch

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you…

— Damon Lindelof

Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the…

— Thomas Sowell

I would give the same advice to anyone, celebrity or not. Produce your own music, keep in original, and be real. You…

— Paul Oakenfold

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put…

— Dr. John

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One…

— Ken Wilber

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one…

— Tammy Bruce

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who…

— Jack Kingston

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is…

— Richard Bach

When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your…

— Bryant H. McGill