“It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.” WellsIdeasCharacterStoriesHappensOriginalsSophisticatedOriginal Ideas Author:Margaret Mahy
“If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.” PeopleIfsRealHappensBandJokesOriginalsOld JokesReddit Author:Chris Hardwick
“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.” ThinkingWritingMeanRealHappensTogetherBornCreativePoetExpressionOriginalsProsePoetry IsConstructiveIntervalsRebornCreative Expression Author:Herbert Read
“In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.” IfsKnowsFirstsLooksImportantHappensEarthFormCoursesShareUniversalDiedOriginalsSpeciesLeavingChainsAssumptionPairsAncestorTraitsOrganismsExtinctionDescendantsBacteriaLineageLiving OrganismsSpecies Extinction Author:David M. Raup
“Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.” ThinkingWayIdeasSometimesHappensStuffMy OwnRecordsJourneyOriginalsFingertipsOriginal IdeasMutation Author:Elvis Costello
“Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).” ThinkingBelieveHappensInterestEffortImagineOriginalsIncrediblesAccomplishMake It HappenWeekdays Author:Ben Clymer
“If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option to mix inside a big studio, but at the end of the day, it comes from an original spark, which often happens while sitting on the couch.” IfsIdeasEndsBigsHappensNiceSittingOriginalsCome UpStudiosThe End Of The DaySparksCouchesLaptopsOriginal IdeasEmbellishment Author:Hudson Mohawke
“A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.” WorldReasonHappensOrderFallUniverseLordObjectsMastersHonorPerfectionOriginalsBlindCreatorVarietyEvolveReasoningHeavenlySovereignUnlimitedFalling DownUnlimited PowerLord God Author:Isaac Newton
“A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.” PeopleStoriesHappensFourPagesBuiltOriginalsAssumingStartingLogicalApocalypseProgressionStarting PointHorsemenFour HorsemenFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Author:Roberto Orci
“I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].” HappensOriginalsScreenplays Author:Steven Knight
“Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.” MenHappensCausesCreativeMovementOriginalsEvery ManMobile Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.” PeopleWorldSeemsHappensEvilLeftOriginalsBad ThingsBad People Author:Keith Ablow
“Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayYearsMayLittlesDifferentMomentsSeemsHappensTodayFormTomorrowOriginalsOne WayChanging Your Life Author:Slash
“As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.” PeopleHappensTroubleOriginalsScandalCover Ups Author:Tom Petri