Quotes About Original

Thus, reflected Poirot, did some reassurances cause greater alarm than the original remark upon which they sought to improve.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

The accent was of so weird a lilt that at first Steerpike could not recognize more than one sentence in three, but he had quickly attuned himself to the original cadence and as the words fell into place Steerpike realized that he was staring at a poet.

So they decided to make their own culture, and it couldn't have been more different

Within the company, Dodgson presented himself as a researcher, even though he lacked the ability to do original research, and had never done any. His intellect was fundamentally derivative; he never conceived of anything until someone else had thought of it first. He was very good at "developing" research, which meant stealing someone else's work at an early stage. In this, he was without scruple and without peer.

I understand,' Marder said. 'But a claim filed in a court has limited publicity. Newsline is going to present these crazy claims to forty million viewers. And at the same time, they'll automatically validate the claims, simply by repeating them on television. The damage to us comes from their exposure, not from the original claims.

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

the first rule of Moritz Haupt for interpreting the classics,—'Man soll nicht übersetzen.' ['Do not translate':

Mostly very ordinary, but I do buy an original Ken Livingstone watercolour of Thatcher in a coffin with a Struwwelpeter-like Heseltine looming over her. Painted the day she resigned! Outbid someone at £110.00.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Slavery was our nation's original sin.

Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.

My singing voice is very specific to me. That's my natural voice when I sing.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.