Borrowed Quotes

233 quotes by 203 authors

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been. — Robert Silverberg
The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. — Mark Steyn
To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he… — Philip Schultz
When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth… — Richard M. Nixon
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up… — Wayne Huizenga
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain] — Gerard Way
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If… — Warren Buffett
The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle… — Mitch Daniels
As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to… — Byron Dorgan
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he… — Roger McGuinn
... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what… — Phil Lesh
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people… — Rick Bragg
When a woman extends her hand for you to shake it, then you shake her hand. You do not turn it up and kiss it.… — Paula Poundstone
I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look… — Syd Barrett
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson
Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant… — Alan Greenspan
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt. — John M. Ford
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou

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