“The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!” WorldI CanCharacterStoriesThreeNextWaitingChanceFantasyGoneAdventureThousandTenOriginalsCloudsPlotSurprisingDiverseEngagingThrilling Author:N.K. Jemisin
“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
“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.” WritingPastWishFeltCasesSourceTenEssentialsOriginalsOneselfNine Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.” IfsWritingYearsLongMadeEnoughWantedFeltTenTwentiesOriginalsListsRememberedRecallsHighlightsTotal Recall Author:Len Wiseman
“If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.” IfsMenMistakeWiseBrotherThousandLuckyTenOriginalsCousinSame Mistakes Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.” PeopleThinkingArtCreativeTenPercentAreasOriginalsFollowingCopying Author:Hugh Hopper
“I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us, and he drew us our own personal picture of our character that was in color. And uh, I just have a copy of it, I think that they're going to do something special with the originals at the end, like presenting them to us.” ThinkingMadeEndsCharacterSpecialColorTenOriginalsListsCopiesPresentingSomething SpecialBryan Author:Johnny Simmons
“I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire story! His wife is running around and solving the case!” StoriesRunningCasesNovelWifeBedTenOriginalsEight Author:Rowan Atkinson
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” IfsMenTryingHas BeensArtTruthLiteratureCreativityTenOriginalsMereCaringNineBotherTelling The TruthOriginalityOriginal ThoughtBeing OriginalOriginal ArtLiterature And Art Book:Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life
“I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.” BigsNightWatchesFansPlanetsTenOriginalsEvery NightCommandmentsApesTen CommandmentsBig Movie Author:Tracy Morgan
“It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.” MindFirstsHumansIdeasCreativityThousandTenOriginalsVery GoodCome UpRidiculousGood IdeasToysDiscardedIdiotic Book:Brightness Reef Source: Brightness Reef