Unoriginal Quotes

#1. Sarah. I smiled. I couldn't help but appreciate the absolute perfection of the name; bland, common, and wholly unoriginal. Best of all, it means princess.

Katja Millay

#2. For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in so doing you won't lose yourselves, become unoriginal, what happens is the opposite, by doing this you'll find yourselves. The more you read, the better. The

Karl Ove Knausgard

#3. Sorry if we can't all be unoriginal but I have a mold to break.

Jeffree Star

#4. The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

Alain De Botton

#5. Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

Vittorio Alfieri

#6. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or other, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives

Neil Gaiman

#7. He was conscious that his thoughts and feelings were the same utterly unoriginal torments of billions like him: the bewildering indifference of the universe, the pointlessness of suffering, the inescapable obligation to abide with it.

James Howard Kunstler

#8. Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism
like irony
provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal.

Michael Perry

#9. I'm developing a little crush on Michael Fassbender. Really unoriginal.

Holliday Grainger

#10. Man is an unoriginal animal, said Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

#11. Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.

Agatha Christie

#12. When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Patrick Kavanagh

#14. Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

Marie Corelli

#15. Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

Yves Behar

#17. You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.

Richard Linklater

#18. A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

Bram Cohen

#19. Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

John Stuart Mill

#20. I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Jeremy Thomas

#21. When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And ... that's ridiculous, but so am I.

Tegan Quin

#22. The Beast looked faintly alarmed.
"Don't worry, I never stab anyone twice in the same hour. I don't want them to think I'm unoriginal."
"I confess, I am more afraid you will clip me bald."
"Vain Beast.

T. Kingfisher

#23. Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

Charles Stross

#24. The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn't it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?

Rinsai Rossetti

#26. Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

Michael Redhill

#27. I was completely obsessed with her. Addicted wasn't a strong enough word. She had surpassed my addictive tendencies, and I was full-blown obsessed.

Abbi Glines

#28. Doubt isn't original.

Toba Beta

#29. The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage.

Ryan Lilly

#31. Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

Rita Ora

#32. There's lower wisdom in comment.

Toba Beta

#33. Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

David Boies

#34. An envious heart can't be original.

Toba Beta

#35. Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

J.I. Packer

#36. I become a happier man each time I suffer

Lance Armstrong