Borrowing Stuff Quotes & Sayings

Here's the thing ... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff. — Benny Blanco

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening. — Andrzej Sapkowski

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. — Kevin McCloud

In the Game of Life, as in our world, self-reproducing patterns are complex objects. One estimate, based on the earlier work of mathematician John von Neumann, places the minimum size of a self-replicating pattern in the Game of Life at ten trillion squares - roughly the number of molecules in a single human cell. — Stephen Hawking

Be clear and smiling for those who are glad to see you.
Someone who is not, let his way darken like a pen leaving a faltering ink trail. — Rumi

My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility. — Margaret Cho

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. — Thomas Perry

I never had any boyhood ambitions. — Daniel Craig

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence — John Adams

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. — John Woolman

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. — Malcolm X

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person. — John Carmack

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party. — Eddie Kaye Thomas

My dad worked for 40 years in an aluminum plant. I don't think he ever got aluminum block. — Jess Walter

Years into days.
Days into hours.
Hours into minutes.
Minutes into moments.
Moments into possibility. — David Levithan

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. — Lewis H. Lapham