Original Score Written

Famous quotes containing the words original, score and/or written:

    The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself—who according to the Rabbins was also the first author—not being an original; the only original author being God.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    How many miles to Babylon?
    Three score and ten.
    Can I get there by candlelight?
    Yes, and back again.
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. How many miles to Babylon? (l. 1–4)

    Now stamp the Lord’s Prayer on a grain of rice,
    A Bible-leaved of all the written woods
    Strip to this tree: a rocking alphabet,
    Genesis in the root, the scarecrow word,
    And one light’s language in the book of trees.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)