Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality provokes originality.

Odilon Redon

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Mason Cooley

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

Jacob Bronowski

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

John Steinbeck

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Eric Hoffer

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

This is much more like the original plan.

Eric Hoffer

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

Paulo Freire

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Philip Johnson

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Johan Huizinga

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Julie Andrews

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

M. C. Escher

Originality is merely an illusion.

Joshua Reynolds

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Paul Davies

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Paul Davies

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Roy Acuff

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Wernher von Braun

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

Samuel Beckett

All has not been said and never will be.

William Arthur Ward

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do your work, but do your thing.

Robert Bresson

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Rumi

There is an original inside me.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Shirley Temple

We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Imitations only better the original.

Sean Penn

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.