It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Shania Twain

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken

I'm the original take-orders girl.
Judy Garland

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
Elie Wiesel

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
Paula Abdul

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.
Adam Smith

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
Freddie Mercury

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
Dean Koontz

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Roald Dahl

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran Lebowitz

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
Eddie Murphy

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi