Originals Quotes

39 Originals quotes by 30 unique authors

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals. — Sebastian Bach
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...… — Thomas Jefferson
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. — Warren Zevon
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
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… — Chuck Zito
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had… — Igor Stravinsky
I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am.… — Jennifer Lawrence
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… — Patricia Briggs
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — Isaac D'Israeli
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… — Isaac D'Israeli
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… — Joseph Addison
I prefer writing originals. — Tony Gilroy
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… — Archie Shepp
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs. — Miranda Kerr
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… — Emeril Lagasse
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… — George R. R. Martin

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