Quotes of: Originality Keyword

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

The Origin of Species

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

The Origins of Totalitarianism

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Thomas Couture

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Man Ray

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

The Origins Of History

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as wit...

Richard Dawkins

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Fran Lebowitz

I'm a little younger than these guys, but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original 'MacGyver' series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for 'MacGruber.'

Jorma Taccone

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

Dean Koontz

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Jeaniene Frost

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.

Jane Goldman

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.

Sherwood Schwartz

The first symptom of the trouble appeared when Madison studied Hamilton’s proposal for the funding of the domestic debt. On the one hand, Hamilton’s recommendation looked straightforward: All citizens who owned government securities should be rei...

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having b...

The Origin of Species

The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. T...

Anne Rice

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality