Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
Originals quotes
Originals
139 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Philip Johnson
Architect
"I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist
"If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?"
Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"There is an original inside me."
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"I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher."
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"She's the original good time who was had by all."
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"It is always better to be an original than an imitation."
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"Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God."
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"The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves."
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"There are more copies than originals among people."
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"Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling."
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"There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise."
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"Hippies? Why, I'm the original."
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"the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely."
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"When the whole point of Queen was to be original."
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"Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless."
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"A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least."
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"Nothing in Christianity is original."
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"There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal."
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"I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas."
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""One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I"."
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"The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original."
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"Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion."
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"I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original."
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