“Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.” LastsSecretBehindsPaperOriginalsSeriesCome UpThought ProvokingPensProvokingTimelyOriginal Thought Author:Paul Scheuring
“Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.” StillsMightLastsArmsOriginalsGloriousRepublicFlagsGlancesTrophiesStreaming Author:Noah Webster
“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.” CountryActionJobsLastsAmericaNightOrderSidesMistakeCuttingMiddleAdventureAuthorityProgramOriginalsSouthChinaEastMessIdiotExecutivesMiddle EastAmendmentsLast NightSecond AmendmentRiflesImportsSouth AmericaExecutive OrdersAk 47 Author:L. Neil Smith
“I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.” WantWritingYearsFirstsPlayCharacterMightLastsActorsStageParticularMonthsSixOriginalsProductionsSix Months Author:Neil Simon
“While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.” YearsLittlesHas BeensDoneLastsEvilGivenAttentionMoralTenGoodnessConceptsOriginalsDepthPhilosopherDiscussionExceptionImpressiveAdmirableProvocativeBreadth Author:Raimond Gaita
“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.” YearsHas BeensTwoBigsRunningJobsLastsMillionsEnvironmentCuttingPercentOriginalsSpeciesForestsDestroyedCorporationsOperationsVersusEcosystemsBig BusinessAcresDichotomyTimberRedwoodsLogging Author:Julia Hill
“I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.” WritingDreamLastsSongRiversOriginalsAlbumsTunesWriting SongsWriting Music Author:Billy Joel
“When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."” WorldTogetherLastsWonderFeetFieldsBaseballBallsOriginalsRoofPackagesRemarksCrossingsRuth Author:Heywood Broun
“Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe. This novel rocks . . . In Girlchild Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park. When you finish this novel, your sorrow at turning the last page will be eased by your excitement at what this sassy, talented author will do next.” CharacterLastsNextVoiceForgetNovelRocksSorrowPagesOriginalsNarrativeDawnExcitementParksAweNever ForgetCompellingSassyProtagonistsHendrixEndearingHoldenCentral ParkHolden CaulfieldPrecocious Author:Mameve Medwed
“The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.” WarHandsLastsSpiritFallLeftCenturyProudSittingOriginalsPossessionOwnersFierceBloodyPacksNobilityBullsBosomsWhiningPrairieRedskins Author:L. Frank Baum
“When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.” LooksRunningLastsTurnsLosesHurtAbilityRaceStepsOriginalsCompetitionImitationChasingStretching Author:Oprah Winfrey
“The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.” LastsNightOriginalsLast NightPhenomenal Author:Kevin Hart
“Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead run to get out as much content as possible and do as much as possible. Then, I go back to writing the screenplay I was working on, which is an original piece - a period piece that I will hopefully finish a couple of months after that, and hopefully I can convince some unsuspecting fool studio to buy.” WritingHas BeensI CanRunningLastsPresidentPiecesFoolMonthsCouplePeriodsOriginalsElectionDemocraticStudiosHopefullyConvinceConventionsScreenplaysUnsuspecting Author:Joss Whedon
“The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.” ThinkingMayLittlesArtImportantDifferentSometimesMatterLastsReadingQualityTakenSeeingMysteryOriginalsMysteriousJust OneFascinatingAssertivenessOf Context Author:Susan Sontag
“My original book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] was 1,700 pages. The first editor brought it down to 700; there was a lot that didn't make it in. But at last it's finished. I had a hard time signing off on it. And I was worried about it hurting anyone I loved even indirectly. I sat in my room afterwards for two hours wondering what I had done. I wondered about it being judged and if people would understand.” PeopleIfsFirstsHeartTwoBookHardDoneLastsPoliticalHoursHurtRoomsWonderPagesOriginalsFinishedWorriedSatHard TimesEditorsJudgedSigningBeing JudgedSigning Off Author:Angela Alioto
“As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.” YearsFirstsLastsForeverFiveInformationExampleMachinesOriginalsLikesBrandsFive YearsDigitalTapeFoundersMarsLaboratoryJetNasaVikingsGlobal BusinessPropulsion Author:Paul Saffo
“The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.” WorldIdeasLastsThis WorldTypeAuthorityOriginalsOddTwistsChinsSelectedOriginal IdeasOdd ThingsBeaversMimeNecktiesEager Beaver Book:Time Out of Joint Source: Time Out of Joint
“Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.” ChildrenLastsYoungAudienceCenturyFitOriginalsDelightTalesSensualityComplexityFairyFairy TaleOnce Upon A TimeSmall ChildYoung And Old Author:Terri Windling
“So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.” MenBookWholeEarthLastsScienceSpiritCreativeWrittenCreationRevolutionEvolutionCreaturesOriginalsSeriesChaosAncientSubstanceSandWarmthPeculiarCrownsClayExquisiteMarbleGeologySlateLimesCreative Spirit Book:Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man Source: Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man
“In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations.” Has BeensTwoSometimesLastsGoalMy OwnInterestingMonthsCostOriginalsMathematicsBusyMathematicalAgain And AgainSpeculationProspectsTwo MonthsOne DirectionWisps Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.” PeopleThinkingTryingLastsArtistOriginalsOriginality Author:Lukas Foss
“My beloved soul, having awakened at last into My Peace, you can return consciously and completely to your own Original Source. As this homecoming fills you with in expressible joy it pervades Allah Most High with profound delight as well (You will) experience the perfect union with Love that is My highest Paradise.” WellsSoulLastsJoyPerfectSourceReturnHighestOriginalsUnionsProfoundDelightBelovedParadiseAwakenedHomecomingRest In Peace Author:Lex Hixon
“It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.” LifeSaidLastsSuccessGuyBusinessNiceSelf ImprovementBaseballOriginalsPhilosopherBusiness SuccessDishonestyNice GuyAmerican BaseballNice Guys Finish Last Author:Alan Greenspan
“Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less, but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining... I would require him to stop the protest crying, usually by offering him a little more of whatever caused the original tears.” MayChildrenLittlesTwoRealLastsFiveMinutesCryTearsOriginalsComplainingProtestOffering Book:Dare to Discipline Source: Dare to Discipline