“If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.” IfsPersonsFoundFiguresShadowOriginalsStartingStarting PointStrangeness Author:Paul Gauguin
“Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.” MeanBookSpiritSawsFateHonestyFiguresDespairOriginalsArguingResolutionMisfortunesLazinessDefectsImpatienceOffspringDespicable Author:Jeremy Collier
“You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsStillsFiguresOriginalsDivorceSeparationDamageSensible Author:David Whyte
“We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.” ShouldMeanDecisionCasesFiguresSourceOriginalsCreatorDecision MakingLockedTransparentOpen SourceNew Words Author:Mitchell Baker
“I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.” IfsShouldIdeasWarChristianChristianityNovelFiguresHeroMouthsOriginalsJewLibertarianRadicalWhat IfParadoxGossipAnti WarSocialistControversialParablesWord Of MouthSemiotics Author:Robert Montgomery
“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.” ThinkingKnowsWritingTwoHelpingSongThreeHalfEconomyFiguresOriginalsNineNot SureHelp MeLengthVersesDistillation Author:J Tillman
“A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.” DifferencesFiguresShadowOriginalsScreensAttractiveScenery Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.” FirstsFiguresLonelyOriginalsThemeTunesMelodyMelancholyViolinContemplativePreludeViola Author:Bear McCreary
“I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.” ImportantIdeasPhilosophyModernFiguresOriginalsPhilosopherContinental Author:Allen W. Wood
“Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.” IfsGivingTryingHeartActionUsedValuesFiguresArgumentTreatsGive MeIncreaseOriginalsSilverPlasticBatsNerdPackingAction FiguresLimited Edition Author:Amy Poehler
“I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.” ThinkingEndsVoiceFiguresOriginalsStealingFigure Skating Author:Steve Buscemi
“I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” ShouldLooksLittlesAmericaKnownFiguresBirdRedAccountsOriginalsBritishSillyVainNativeComparisonFarmsYardsCoatsTurkeysEaglesRespectableBald Eagle Author:Benjamin Franklin