“The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.” PeopleSeemsHappenedOriginalsThreatMonk Author:Steve Lacy
“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.” WholeUseMovingFourHappenedHundredStonesPaidTwentiesOriginalsDollarsDrawingTreasureAgentsDamnConvinceSixtyFifteenRollingRolling StonesRue Author:Ralph Steadman
“Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.” PeopleMeanMovingCertainSongFocusHappenedHealthyBandConcernedOriginalsCurrentsDuesSomedayTouringPhysicality Author:Phil Ehart
“Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.” MovingHappenedOriginalsAssumingCatastrophe Author:Jean Baudrillard
“Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!” MenBelieveDoeMadeWholeChanceDestinyHappenedHe ManLoversMetsMen And WomenOriginalsAngryReformDividedRighteousAmazing ThingsMost Amazing Author:Fay Weldon
“A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.” PeopleWellsIdeasHappenedMessagesWindowOriginalsErrorsOriginal IdeasOperating Systems Author:Satya Nadella
“James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me [meeting him]. Then I guess also meeting Ben Stiller. He cast me in the only thing I think I ever auditioned for and got: Cable Guy [1996]. And that led to us becoming friends.” ThinkingPersonsImportantGuyHappenedBecomingOriginalsImportant ThingsMeetingsCastsCablesBrooks Author:Owen Wilson
“It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I realized I hadn't read the play. So I read it. Then I realized that Troy (my character) was 53 - and I was 55 at the time. I realized I better hurry up! I might be too old!” YearsPlayCharacterMightHappenedYears AgoOriginalsSevenI RealizedFenceBroadwaySeven YearsAugustScreenplaysWilson Author:Denzel Washington
“What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.” YearsMindIdeasWantedSecretHappenedReturnConversationProjectsEnglandOriginalsLondonTomsInvitedChordsAdventurerHardyOriginal Ideas Author:Steven Knight
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.” PeopleWomenBornSinHappenedMetsOriginalsOriginalityOriginal SinOriginal Thought Author:Fran Lebowitz
“In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.” ViewsHappenedTraditionAbsolutesOriginalsIslamProphetCultMessengers Author:Salman Rushdie