And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
Lester Bangs

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
John Mellencamp

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
Steve Yzerman

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
Joe Baca

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

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
David Cronenberg

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
Meg Cabot

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.
Jerry Lee Lewis

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
Merrill Markoe

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Susan Sarandon

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
Norman O. Brown

If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Gene Fowler

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Robertson Davies

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike

Hockey is the original extreme sport.
Tom Ward

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

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.
Roger Andrew Taylor

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith