O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.”
“Originality is what everybody wants, but there’s a sweet spot,” Rob Minkoff explains. “If it’s not original enough, it’s boring or trite. If it’s too original, it may be hard for the audience to understand. The goal is to push the envelope, not tear the envelope.”
Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.”
“Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.”
“Originality provokes originality.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences”
“Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Originality will be rewarded in any line.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.”
“Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.”
“Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.”
Source: Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry
“Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.”
“Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.”
“Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.”
“Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.”
“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual feelings and religious feelings became separated from one another, that which is sexual was forced to become the bad, the internal, the diabolical.”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.”
“Originally I considered myself a singer.”
“Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My range is about one and a half notes. I ended up talking the musical numbers, which was revolutionary at the time. The lyrics are extremely intricate. They move along like a precisely acted scene. If you miss a word - heaven help you - the orchestra rattles past like an express train, and you've got to run like the devil to catch up.”
“Originally I had a fear of rejection at the auditions, which is a lack of self-confidence ultimately. Now I have a production company and when you can look behind the scenes at the casting process, you know it's not about rejection. It might have been the most amazing performance ever, but if the person is too tall, too short, too brown, too white, has blond hair or whatever it is, then not getting the gig may have nothing to do with the performance. You have to learn to treat auditioning as matter-of-factly as drinking a glass of water.”
“Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.”
“Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.”
“Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.”
“Originally I was not writing songs for myself”
“Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.”
“Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.”
“Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.”
Source: Ethics
“Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.”
Source: Mammon and the black goddess
“Originally, people do not like when someone scolds them. Hey, why not make that a vitamin and your work will be done.”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.”
“Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.”
“Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...”
“Originally the sonnet was a site of sexual violence. Male poets were rewarded for celebrating the women they hunted. They used the sonnet form and an instrument called the ‘blazon’ to convert their prey into exquisite English artifacts. Our anthologies still include holograms of jewel-like eyes, porcelain skin, ruby lips, hair like gold, and so on.”
“Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.”
“Originally, there were no man-made borders to divide and segregate lands on this beautiful planet.”
Source: Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace
“Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean big arms. It means who can be a more strict human being with himself. That is the ideal of martial arts.”
“Originally, we are all inclined to injustice and violence, because our needs, desires, anger, and hatred immediately enter consciousness and thus have the jus primi occupantis”
Source: The Basis of Morality
“Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.”
“Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.”
“Originally when we talked about language disorder it was a catastrophic language disorder. It's substantial, and from a treatment standpoint it's okay to keep diluting that term, but from a research standpoint we need to be much more precise. I wish somebody would take up the mantle of just that particular task.”
“Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.”
“Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.”
“Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.”
Source: The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays
“Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.”
“Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.”
“Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.”
“Originally, I started acting because I showed interest in movies and TV.”
“Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.”
“Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.”