Original Quotes

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.