Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the… — Anuj Copy Share Image
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
Everyone is a person of their own; with choices of their own, a mind of their own, strenghts of their own, weakness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those that can stand out from the crowd and create their… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble,… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the… — Eugene Manlove Rhodes Copy Share Image
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
