Original Quotes

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

Normality is the new eccentric.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

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

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...