Quotes About Originality

Pretty was hardly the word. With her fierce curled lips, black eyes and clean angry bones she must have stood out in her graduating class like a chicken hawk in a flock of pullets.

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

Para qué narices queremos jirafas que se parezcan a sí mismas?

Su originalidad incontestable está en que todo lo amalgama, lo funde y lo armoniza en un estilo suyo, nervioso, delicado, pintoresco, lleno de resplandores súbitos y de graciosas sorpresas, de giros inesperados, de imágenes seductoras, de metáforas atrevidas, de epítetos relevantes y oportunismos y de palabras bizarras, exóticas aún, mas siempre bien sonantes.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can't beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.

The nettles stung me viciously on the hands and face, and I cursed in my best Hindustani. The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can't beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.

The newspapers at that time were quite complimentary, they viewed him as an oddball who might just have come up with something good.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you're talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance.

Two young ladies, in toreador pants and mohair sweaters, whose swirling coiffures looked as though they had been squeezed from an icing gun, had ranged themselves at the fountain. They

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

Sometimes a fruit falls from a tree and rolls so far away from its roots that it's no longer of the tree. The hard fall, and long journey, bruises the fruit so much that it totally changes it. Its the same way for some of our people. This is why some cant be awakened regardless of how much truth you present to them. This journey has totally brainwashed them to such a degree that they're no longer of the original tree.

La mejor forma de defenderte, es no parecerte al ellos

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

there was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.

It's fun to be different, but not too different!

the beige should not wear beige.

Art is what you can get away with, said somebody or other, which makes it sound like shoplifting or some other minor crime. And maybe that's all it ever was, or is: a kind of stealing. A hijacking of the visual.

I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.