#origin

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#based #case #child #choose #every

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fit #likely #masterpiece #original #reader

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#essentially #originally #project #returned #trademark

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fails #good #his #man #many

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#astute #audacious #change #committed #courageous

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#art #fine #fine art #forgetting #hear

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#because #else #gotta #like #need

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. ↗

— Tom Petri

#cover-up #gets #most #original #people

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. ↗

— Liz Phair

#collaborating #difficult #fact #i #independence