Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Flaubert | |
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson | |
theory, n.: System of ideas meant to explain something, chosen with a view to originality, controversialism, incomprehensibility, and how good it will look in print. | |
We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play" |