“Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.” WellsIdeasArtistDiedHotOriginalsTablesFinishedSupposed To BeMealsSecondsCavesPirateWaltOriginal Ideas Author:John Hench
“Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.” FoundSinTheoryCivilizationOriginalsTablesGasSteamOriginal Sin Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.” GivingLongWholeDifferencesWhiteFlowerOriginalsFellowsTablesYellowImmenseBowlsHaikuWhole PictureYellow Flower Author:John Lennon
“When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.” GivingWritingPersonsEndsTalkingPiecesConversationPaperOriginalsTablesNotesPhonesSummary Author:Edward Boyden
“Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.” IdeasFilmCan DoDangerousTelevisionCostOriginalsTablesExperimentsFringeOffbeat Author:Steven Spielberg
“I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.” IfsThinkingWellsUseCertainFoodOriginalsTablesCookingWittyExtremesArroganceGet AwayCulinarySpoonsApprehensionVery Witty Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.” DoeLyingTurnsSinCivilizationOriginalsTablesGasSteamReductionOriginal Sin Author:Charles Baudelaire
“My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.” ThinkingWritingDifferentMistakeSuccessfulTeacherTeachingStudentsProductsIdealsOriginalsTablesNotionObviousOppositionPermitWorkshopsImitatingWriting Workshop Author:Nicholas Delbanco