Quotes of: Original-idea Keyword

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Eric Hoffer

I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

Brea Grant

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.

Bjorn Lomborg

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

Bryant McGill

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Barbara Tuchman

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

Bess Truman

I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

Chetan Bhagat

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

Charles Bukowski

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

Gabriel Mann

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

George Gaylord Simpson

Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

Goldwin Smith

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Gus Van Sant

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

Hank Azaria

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

Howard Blum

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

Ha-Joon Chang

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

Hugh Hopper

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

John Mellencamp

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

James Clerk Maxwell