"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."

Agnew, Spiro T. | Media | 3 bookmarks

"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."

Lasch, Christopher | Media | 1 bookmarks

"If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it."

Orton, William A. | Media | 1 bookmarks

"All profoundly original art looks ugly at first."

Greenberg, Clement | Originality | 3 bookmarks

"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good."

Johnson, Samuel | Originality | 1 bookmarks

"We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. | Originality | 2 bookmarks

"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Melville, Herman | Originality | 5 bookmarks

"Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism."

Voltaire | Originality | 3 bookmarks