A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John Stuart Mill

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Antonio Gaudi

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Jackie Chan

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Edward Carpenter

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
Burt Lancaster

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
Julia Roberts

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.
Evan Parker

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Amy Tan

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
Robin Cousins

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
David Neeleman

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Thomas Couture

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Mason Cooley