Original Quotes

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.

Now all that’s left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn’t eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

I’m not like anyone. I’m me.

I’m the original take-orders girl.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Failure is the true test of greatness