#origin

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. ↗

— Tom Petri

#cover-up #gets #happens #most #often

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. ↗

— Susan Powter

#anything #be original #because #few #few people

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. ↗

— Jean Philippe Rameau

#origin #singing #speech #verse

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

#creativity #genius #insanity #originality #schizophrenia

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? ↗

— Warren Ellis

#believe #brain #inside #made #originate

I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#bound #did #film #i #i think

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#became #depressed #even #having #i

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? ↗

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#author #ever #more #much #observed

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays. ↗

— Beth Henley

#did #i #original #plays #rather