Unoriginality Quotes

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

I suppose I could do 'The Reassembler' at 80. But it would be a terrible cliche.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Way too many people are trying to do the same thing with their lives.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.

As a kid, I was obsessed with 'Calvin and Hobbes' and 'Bone,' and I'm certain that I've unconsciously ripped off ideas from both, wholesale.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.

I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.