#original

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. ↗

— Moby

#bond #cover #did #felt #fraud

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#careful #conventional #depth #i #i am

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. ↗

— John Moody

#originally #railroad #ship #steam

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out. ↗

— Robert Moog

#carry #conceived #could #gig #guy

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#american #american women #brother #created #elder

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#invent #original #thought #which #would

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