Home / Topics / Originals Quotes

Originals Quotes

Browse 2564 quotes about Originals.

Originals Quotes

“Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.”

Wells Pleasure Duty Taste Originals

Book:Studies in Physiology and Medicine

Source: Studies in Physiology and Medicine

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.”

Thinking Way Inspirational Mean Ideas Problem Bigs Culture Technology Products Taste Originals Microsoft Best Job Original Ideas Best Design Small Jobs

Author:Steve Jobs

“High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.”

Firsts Lines Genius Taste Highest Appreciate Originals Appearance Command Reputation Recognition

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

“Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.”

Firsts Truth Taste Originals Tongue Substitutes Recalls Sweetness Alas Novelty Newness

Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.”

Want Hours Five Taste Directors Hollywood Originals Heavy Aliens Planes Plus Wow Metals Sheer Good Taste Heavy Metal

Author:Ridley Scott

“It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”

Law Easy Taste Originals Manners Decency Courtesy Good Taste Canon

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.”

Kind May Doe Character Lying Common Quality Objects Taste Unique Claims Originals Consumers Exploits Deceptive Availability Elitist Kitsch Inaccessible Rarity Forgery

Author:Matei Calinescu

“It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.”

Beauty Taste Elements Originals Monsters Conventional

Author:Alfred Jarry

“The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.”

People Ifs Trying Fall Trouble Taste Originals Falling In Love Peanuts Remakes Peanut Butter

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”

Writing Artist Taste Originals Proportion Creative Writing

Author:William Wordsworth

“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”

Stills Bits Taste Mouths Originals Remains Temptation Apples

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.”

“Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!”

Ifs Men Heart Eye Running Desire Found Loses Enemy Five Failing Color Taste Ears Claims Harmony Originals Hearing Ruins Cages Flavor Perfume Discernment Pigeons True Life Found Happiness

Author:Zhuangzi