I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought. — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.” — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God’s original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration,… — Francois Du Toit Copy Share Image
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What… — Paul Scheuring Copy Share Image
“...what is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping.… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
All things are reproductions, ideas are reproductions of original thought. In terms of the ultimate singularity, all things are nothingness. Reverse on… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor… — James Garner Copy Share Image
“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
“Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have… — Edward L. Bernays Copy Share Image
“I just can't see the upside in this," I heard myself say by way of explanation. Later he said that if John… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“To some people original thought is a medical condition that leads to migraines” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought. — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
