Adopted Quote by Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your…

— Antonin Scalia

Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out…

— George Gershwin

Originality is a return to the origin.

— Antonio Gaudi

“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its own birth.…

— Carlos Fuentes

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

— Stephen Dunn

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who…

— John French Sloan

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Voltaire

“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking