Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed…

I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business.…

— Ben Gazzara

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I…

— John le Carre

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from…

— Richard Owen

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

— Bear Bryant

Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

— Mary McCarthy

“I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love, everything else is just borrowed.”

— The Streets

Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate…

— Warren Buffett

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

— Andre Leon Talley

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich,…

— Pierce Brosnan

I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind.

— Jared Leto

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom.…

— George Osborne

I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms…

— Sophie Blackall

There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A…

— Raymond Pettibon

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

— George Herbert