Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Television has borrowed from the carnival midway the barker's tease: "Coming Up Next: a Perfect 10" (Sex? Bo Derek? No, the weatherman… — Edwin Diamond Copy Share Image
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance.… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen Copy Share Image
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
