Quotes About Originality

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

El conocimiento… se transmite como la llama de una antorcha, de mente a mente, y esta llama prende fuego tan sólo en las mentes originales. —Charlotte Mason

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

No one else is you and that is your superpower!

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed... Write like a motherfucker.

Be a vintage typewriter in a world full of laptops.

EDITOR... a bit of sandpaper applied to all forms of originality by the publisher-proprietor...

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... the poet brings his poem... the farmer, corn... the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing, for it restores society in so far to its primary basis, when a man's biography is conveyed in his gift... But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Different isn't always better, but better is always different.

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.

I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker colour.

You didn't come into this life to be anyone else. You are here to stand out. To express yourself as only you can.

Ideas are no one's monopoly - Dhirubhai Ambani

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

something will only be perfect when no-one else is doing the same thing as you

He lik'd those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces, By plucking bon-mots from their places...

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

The Anxiety of Influence

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.