The Originals Quotes

Perhaps the most serious obstacle impeding the evolution of a land ethic is the fact that our educational and economic system is headed away from, rather than toward, an intense consciousness of land. Your true modern is separated from the land by many middlemen, and by innumerable physical gadgets. He has no vital relation to it; to him it is the space between cities on which crops grow. Turn him loose for a day on the land, and if the spot does not happen to be a golf links or a "scenic" area, he is bored stiff. If crops could be raised by hydroponics instead of farming, it would suit him very well. Synthetic substitutes for wood, leather, wool, and other natural land products suit him better than the originals. In short, land is something he has "outgrown ~ Aldo Leopold

Don't underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the purest hearts are drawn to it. ~ Klaus Mikealson

In every moment a choice exists. We can cling to the past or embrace the inevitability of change and allow a brighter future to unfold before us. ~ Julie Plec

They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths ~ H.P. Lovecraft

I was ... attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love. ~ Igor Stravinsky

I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals. ~ Michael Shnayerson

So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done. ~ Chuck Zito

but in the one moment you two could have chosen to stand by me, you chose to stand against me, to side with my enemies. ~ Klaus Mikaelson

Do you have any idea how rare love is? In a thousand years, I have found it but twice, and when I have, I have honored it. ~ Elijah Mikaelson

The first rule of truly living is to do the things you're most afraid of. ~ Rebekah Mikaelson

I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark theater or turn off the lights in your house and just get sucked into this world. I remember watching Star Wars when I was a little kid when they did the re-release of all the originals. I couldn't even read yet but my uncle took me and he would read me the opening as the words were coming up on the screen. I just remember being so sucked into that and thinking, "I want to be Luke Skywalker." ~ Austin Butler

Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life. ~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.

He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written in verse into another language, for, with all the pains they take and all the cleverness they show, they never can reach the level of the originals as they were first produced. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. ~ Tommy Shaw

What an odd thing it is to be here one moment and gone the next. It's terrifying. ~ Rebekah Mikaelson

I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it. ~ Sonakshi Sinha

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities! ~ Isaac D'Israeli

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there. ~ Russell Peters

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. ~ Nathan Parsons

direct from the originals. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. ~ Joseph Addison

The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow. ~ Harold Bloom

My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission. Yet a translator must also balance fidelity to the source, aptness of expression, and beauty of style. The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture's patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language's rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people's gestures and movements. ~ Ken Liu

An ideal translation should, I believe, reproduce the effect of the original, but I have found that the best any translator can even hope for is to reproduce the effect that the originals have had on him.

(Preface, vi) ~ Harold Gould Henderson

Oh well,' said Jack: and then, 'Did you ever meet Bach?'

'Which Bach?'

'London Bach.'

'Not I.'

'I did. He wrote some pieces for my uncle Fisher, and his young man copied them out fair. But they were lost years and years ago, so last time I was in town I went to see whether I could find the originals: the young man has set up on his own, having inherited his master's music-library. We searched through the papers - such a disorder you would hardly credit, and I had always supposed publishers were as neat as bees - we searched for hours, and no uncle's pieces did we find. But the whole point is this: Bach had a father.'

'Heavens, Jack, what things you tell me. Yet upon recollection I seem to have known other men in much the same case.'

'And this father, this old Bach, you understand me, had written piles and piles of musical scores in the pantry.'

'A whimsical place to compose in, perhaps; but then birds sing in trees, do they not? Why not antediluvian Germans in a pantry?'

'I mean the piles were kept in the pantry. Mice and blackbeetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great passion according to St Mark, in High Dutch; but lower down all was well, and I brought away several pieces, 'cello for you, fiddle for me, and some for both together. It is strange stuff, fugues and suites of the last age, crabbed and knotted sometimes and not at all in the modern ta ~ Patrick O'Brian

I am sure that I am in possession of a soul that is at the very least, a thousand years old. And I say this not on a whim; I say this as someone who is sure of something, who is not thinking fancifully but who is thinking solidly and fully. So why is it that I am childlike and playful? There is only one answer to this, and that is, after existing for a very long time, one learns the skill of retaining childlikeness and the state of childlikeness, which is called playfulness. The immature are not childlike and they are not playful; rather, they are manipulative and insecure. Manipulation is the game of the immature and insecurity is their state of being. I'm saying this because I want to draw the great distinction in the sand very clearly. The older your soul becomes, the more childlike it will be in texture. But we only make playtime out of small and joyful things; there is no playtime when it comes to bravery, honesty, and trust. ~ C. JoyBell C.

May be it's time... Not to give up, to let go ~ The Originals

Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel. ~ Walter Benjamin

The first scene I shot on The Originals was the one with Phoebe, Charles (Michael Davis), and Andy Lees when we are plotting our plan and surveying the map and plotting our grand "break in." It was a relatively light scene which was nice because I was able to warm up a bit and get comfortable with being around the new crew. They were all very kind and helpful and I felt pretty at home after a few takes. ~ Paul Wesley

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. ~ John James Audubon

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original. ~ Joel Silver

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards. ~ Ian MacKaye

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track. ~ Rahki

I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there. ~ Caroline Myss

In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something ... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing. ~ Ethan Hawke

Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset. ~ Cub Koda

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself. ~ T Bone Burnett

since we're all born originals; it would be a shame to die a copy. ~ Elin Peer

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else. ~ Julie Andrews

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

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that. ~ Daryl Hannah

Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better. ~ Zadie Smith

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone. ~ Teju Cole

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original. ~ Al Gore

If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them, ~ Angelina Jolie

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. ~ Eric Hoffer

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it.
I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far. ~ Clive Barker

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance. ~ Henri Matisse

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting. ~ Bob Woodward

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ~ Wolfman Jack

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
Thou art our great original! ~ Thomas Yalden

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. ~ Seamus Heaney

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before. ~ George Weinberg

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. ~ Philip Pullman

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~ Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German. ~ Argus Hamilton

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original. ~ Joseph Haydn

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

Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don't if you don't want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty. ~ Constance Spry

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about. ~ Tim Gane

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ~ David Mamet

Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends. ~ Charles Darwin

There was a time when our minds were always on a roll. We used boxes and sticks to become astronauts and artists. We created fantasy characters and outrageous worlds. We drew whimsical pictures and cooked up wild ideas. We were complete originals. ~ Tom Asacker

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. ~ Kenneth Clark

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story. ~ Damon Lindelof

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. ~ James Russell Lowell

There's a lot [of coaches], and I think in this profession, none of us invented this game, we got it from someone else, and if there's an idea, there's probably never been an original idea in football. ~ Chip Kelly

You got to have style, and learn to be original. ~ KRS-One

If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff. ~ Mike Royer

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. ~ Derek Parfit

Most expensive originals have cheap imitations. ~ Elfriede Jelinek

It is always possible to create something original. ~ George Gershwin