Originals Quotations | Page 2

I prefer writing originals.

The original reality show.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

There are more copies than originals among people.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

There is an original inside me.

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.