Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ezra Pound

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

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.

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.

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.

Dale Dauten

It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Julie Andrews

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Joshua Reynolds

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Paulo Freire

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Ne-Yo

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

Paul Cezanne

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

John Steinbeck

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Philip Johnson

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Mason Cooley

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Jacob Bronowski

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.