Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Its never possible taking trust to the next stronghold yet its originality is movable — Meekness Tapera Copy Share Image
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever!” — Nelson Jack Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
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
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
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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