Unoriginal Quotes

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? (Jeanette Winterson)
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. View quote
John Stuart Mill
I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain. View quote
Jeremy Thomas
Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal. View quote
Yves Behar
...'SummerGrl19?' Very clever handle by the way, the only way you could make it any more unoriginal or cliche would be to add the words 'happy, cute' or 'princess' to the name. View quote
Maddox
A nation that silences or intimidates original minds is left only with unoriginal minds and cannot hope to hold its own in the competition of peace or of war. View quote
Henry Steele Commager
In his recent book, 'Welcome to the Desert of the Real', famed Slovenian socialist intellectual Slavoj Zizek tackles the Palestinian question in a most unoriginal manner. What concerns him most is not the foundational racism of Zionism and its concrete offspring, a racist Jewish state, nor the racist curricula of Israeli Jewish schools, the racist Israeli Jewish media representations of Palestinians, the racist declarations of Israeli Jewish leaders on the right and on the left, or the Jewish supremacist rights and privileges guiding Zionism and Israeli state laws and policies -- all of which seem of little concern to him -- but rather Arab 'anti-Semitism' which should not be 'tolerated'. Arabs are in fact reacting to Zionist Jewish colonialism and its commitment to European white supremacy in Jewish guise. View quote
Joseph Massad