Quotes About Originality

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

it seemed to him as if Mr Norrell had discovered some fifth point of the compass – not east, nor south, nor west, nor north, but somewhere quite different and this was the direction in which he led them.

The only way for a women to get my attention is to be you

I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

Si uno hace algo incorrecto en la mesa con cierta arrogancia, como si supiera perfectamente que está haciendo lo que corresponde, puede salir del paso y nadie pensará que es grosero o que ha recibido una pobre educación. Pensarán que uno es original y muy ocurrente.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty

I want to be important, by being different. & these girls are all the same

Eu havia descoberto, depois de muita ansiedade de quais talheres usar, que se você fizer algo de errado à mesa com certa arrogância, como se você soubesse perfeitamente que aquele é o jeito certo de fazer as coisas, ninguém vai achar que você é grosseira ou mal-educada. Vão pensar que você é original e muito espirituosa.

if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

I want to be important.By being different.And all these girls are the same.

Sure, I make a sort of synthesis of what I come across, but that is all that differentiates me from another person? –

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

The poem which is absolutely original is absolutely bad.

Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.

Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!

Locks are for the unimaginative.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

Bridegroom: I'm built differently.

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.