Quotes About Original

Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.

What I don't believe is that DVDs or HD broadcasts can be a substitute for the real thing.

The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than another man - that we know nothing at all except what we have experienced ourselves.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

If you can't be the best than be different

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.

According to the first view, the original and fundamental function of the nervous system is to link perception with action.

not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.

Kauffman was the first Southern California artist ever to paint an original painting.

Another frame of reference which might help him would be the Doctrine of Original Sin. I wonder if he has ever heard of it. We are all doomed to commit acts of cruelty or violence or evil; that is our destiny, due to ancient factors. Our karma.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue,' wrote Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Then," the girl continued, in a quiet monotone, "the individual applied a high-temperature pack to the forward leg—the right leg. The statue is a poured thermoplastic. When the leg became flexible, the culprit reshaped its position. Major Streiter now appears to be holding his head in his hand, ready to kick it far into the park. Quite original, and quite embarrassing.

To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost like you have this personal connection to the original material.

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

My dad was the original announcer on The Goon Show.'

I was making grime before anyone else.

The Smiths did that well, putting words in pop songs you wouldn't hear anywhere else.

I don't want to be hip and cool. I don't want to play by the rules.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.