Stealing Quotes

1148 Stealing quotes by 866 unique authors

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness"… — Carl Jung
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal… — Zadie Smith
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in… — Robin G. Collingwood
Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door… — Bob Dylan
The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to… — Jens Lekman
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else? — William S. Burroughs
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had… — Igor Stravinsky
I'm being given a little bit of credit now as being a viable collage artist, which some people think is ridiculous. Like this guy who… — Robert Pollard
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political… — James Madison
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. — James Russell Lowell
Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you. — Sam Storms
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,… — Emile Durkheim
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. — P.J. O'Rourke
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent. — Samuel Johnson
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away. — James Gates Percival
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them,… — Ellen Langer
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity… — Samuel Johnson
You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or… — Michael Caine

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