A Quote by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
American - Writer
September 14, 1934 - April 24, 2002

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Ashly Lorenzana

We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," an original screenplay, "Ghostbusters" an original screenplay, "Back to the Future." All these things that people love were original ideas many years ago.

Alfred Gough

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Harold MacMillan

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Susan Powter

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Nicholas Sparks

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

Colin Firth

Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.

Barry Nalebuff

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Thomas Campbell

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.

Warren Farrell

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

Dean Koontz

There is no original truth, only original error.

Gaston Bachelard

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Michel Gondry

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Alfred Rosenberg

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.