As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Oh its delightful to have ambitions. Im so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them thats the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Its delightful when your imaginations come true isnt it

A favor is never so long lived as a grudge.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Originality is really important.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.