#original

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#originality #unique #thought

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#copies #few #gallery #many #originals

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #degeneration #enterprise #originality #pencils

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

#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. ↗

— Clive Barker

#may #orderly #original #regular #violent

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#creative #fresh #only #original #shadows

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#hammond #i #john #like #often

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. ↗

— Bono

#colours #emotional #feelings #occupy #original

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#acts #constitutional #especially #last #last year

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#cent #fifteen #greatest #less #most