Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Vince was part of the team that pitched the original idea for the program to ADVO, and he has been with the program since its inception.

Johan Huizinga

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

M. C. Escher

Originality is merely an illusion.

Odilon Redon

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality provokes originality.

Benjamin Disraeli

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.

Haruki Murakami

Original manuscripts are private information. Like personal letters, there are parts I don't want other people to see.

David Ayer

'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Erin Moran

I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who!I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

George Wald

The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.

Ezra Pound

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Francis Crick

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Reese Witherspoon

So then I said, 'I don't think I'm very good. I would really prefer if we just had somebody else do it or we used the original music.'

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

Joe Roth

In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original 'Rocky,'

William Plomer

On a sofa upholstered in panther skinMona did researches in original sin.

Sonakshi Sinha

I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it.

Joe Brooks

This is the only truly original show now on Broadway. It doesn't come from any other play or film or anything like that.

If your worldview starts with a problematic origin story, everything else is going to be infected.

Fred Hoyle

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

Fred Hoyle

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

Gene Fowler

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

It may have come from outside purchases, ... It may have originated in the plant, but we don't think so.

Jerry Only

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.