Quotes:To put away one's own
original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
View quotes by Barbara TuchmanPrivate property was the
original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
View quotes by Walter LippmannYou can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as
original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.
View quotes by Billy CorganMan's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions.
View quotes by Oliver Wendell HolmesA whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between
original cultures and their culture by "progress."
View quotes by Anatole BroyardThe real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an
original idea into the water of mediocrity.
View quotes by Eric HofferThe judges of England have rarely been
original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
View quotes by Patrick DevlinRent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the
original and indestructible powers of the soil
View quotes by David RicardoYou study, you learn, but you guard the
original naivety. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
View quotes by Henri MatisseEven now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the
original gibberish into Arabic.
View quotes by Michael ParkinsonThe power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either
original or instrumental. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas HobbesUnprovided with
original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
View quotes by Edward GibbonIt is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last,' as that highly
original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
View quotes by Alan GreenspanGreat innovators and
original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
View quotes by Theodor ReikCapitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the
original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
View quotes by Karl MarxWriting is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be
original; by destroying one's first productions.
View quotes by Andre MauroisThe rocks of the
original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.
View quotes by Antoine LavoisierGormenghast, that is, the main massing of the
original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.
View quotes by Mervyn PeakeCancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the
original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
View quotes by Susan SontagWe idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their
original teeth.
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