“Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.” HeartSpecialBearsMy HeartOriginalsClassicTomsEntertainersSpecial PlacesBorderlineEveryman Author:Jason Segel
“A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.” IfsBearsDiseaseOriginalsIllDietsSicknessTemperTemperance Book:Poor Richard's Almanack Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.” PeopleThinkingUnderstandingArmsBearsProtectOriginalsDetermineArguingAssociationAmendmentsBulletsSecond AmendmentRiflesRight To Bear ArmsMilitiaNraTeflonAlways Arguing Author:Robert Bork
“Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.” MeanPowerfulFictionBearsRiversOriginalsWitFearlessJoyfulBleakCadenceBeckett Author:Sam Lipsyte
“The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.” FirstsSeemsMysteryCrimeDependsBearsRelationOriginalsGlances Author:Elsa Barker
“Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.” BearsLosingOriginalsBurdenConventionalFormalInner LifeCompleteness Author:Kenneth Clark
“I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.” PeopleSaidCountryNationsReligiousRightsHeardSonBearsGloryConstitutionOriginalsProtectionCivil RightsOur CountryProphetPurityThreadJoseph SmithZionReligious Rights Author:Eliza R. Snow
“Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?” BearsOriginalsThoughtfulChocolateValentinePerfumeValentine's DayLameTeddyTeddy Bear Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza