Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Peacocke

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Tracy Letts

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film.

Bob Dylan

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

David Hewson

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Banksy

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

Tom Bodett

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

Albert Einstein

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Steve Smith

Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Carl Zimmer

At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more.

Charles Darwin

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Charles Darwin

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Diogenes

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Daniel Webster

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated, ... We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Antoni Gaudi

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is going back to origins.

Andy Goldsworthy

Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

to see our people returned to their own original villages.

John Christopher

The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.

Ellen Lupton

The original Two-Bottle Tote is an interesting product, so functionally specific and worthy of a trademark.

The original piece of property was put together by my grandfather as a weekend place.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.

This result shows the potato originated one time and from a species that was distributed in southern Peru.

Our first original singer just pulled it out randomly. We couldn't think of anything better and we've been using it ever since. It's just words that don't make any sense together.

Anthony Storr

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

I still think that these three original suspects still know more than what they told us.