Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.'

David Ayer

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

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.

This is not within the scope of the original testing.

Haruki Murakami

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

Ne-Yo

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

Gene Fowler

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

William Plomer

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

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.

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.

Michael Eisner

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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.

Mason Cooley

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

Ezra Pound

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A poor original is better than a good 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.

Odilon Redon

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

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Eric Hoffer

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

Eric Hoffer

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

John Steinbeck

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

Paulo Freire

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Philip Johnson

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

This is much more like the original plan.

Johan Huizinga

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

M. C. Escher

Originality is merely an illusion.