Original Quotes

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry

Hard, Idea, Library

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Thinking, Everything, Quotation

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

Whole, Point, Queen

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler

Imitation, Gender, Drag

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
Billy Corgan

Again, Fame, Stage

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
Billy Corgan

Return, Position, Planets

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Thoughts, Ideas, Divine

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Education, Religion, Humanity

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Words, Sense, Ancient

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Brenda Ueland

Important, Learned, Everybody

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
Amy Poehler

Heart, Give, Try

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Henri Matisse

Love, Study, Learn

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
Susan Orlean

Feeling, Genius, Story

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
Bodhidharma

Mind, Real, Body

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Mind, Idea, Goes

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
Tom Petri

Trouble, Scandal, Attempted

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
Camille Paglia

Change, Respect, True

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Bono

Alone, Emotional, Feelings

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.
Catherine Deneuve

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
David Ogilvy

Business, Creative, Create

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Harold MacMillan

Ideas, Sound, Usual

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
Marc Newson

I am your original autodidact.
Doris Lessing

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel

Mistakes, Theory

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Cather

Youth, Desire, Early

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
Alice Cooper

Woman, Name, Makeup

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Muhammad Iqbal

Understand, Why, Impossible

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
Hugh Hopper

Creative, Rest, Maybe

We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!
Josh Hutcherson

Funny, Happy, Thought

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Clive Barker

Life, Work, May

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