Borrowed Quotes

233 quotes by 203 authors

It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template.… — Greg Graffin
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… — Cormac McCarthy
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief… — Neil Gaiman
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and… — Jeanette Winterson
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. — Cormac McCarthy
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed. — Ian Mcewan
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated. — Jonathan Carroll
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed? — Tom Stoppard
Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets — Rebecca Godfrey
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns… — Henri Matisse
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely… — Milan Kundera
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end. — Ian Mcewan
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply… — Kurt Vonnegut
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think… — Oscar Wilde
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed) — Emily Giffin
I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she… — Rick Riordan
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not… — Ramakrishna

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