Misappropriate Quotes & Sayings

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future. — Paulo Coelho

What I do think, however, is that when you're writing about a minority, you must show respect for them and be careful not to misappropriate. Allies must have a care not to become the spokespeople — Sean Kennedy

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. — Henry Rollins

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs. — Trent Reznor

The invisibility in which we live next to one another is appalling, Kukla thought. — Dubravka Ugresic

All I do is play football, eat, sleep, play with my kids, play football. — Timothy F. Cahill

Would you ever purposefully misappropriate syntax? — Christopher Higgs

It is impossible to know when a fish swimming in water drinks some of it. Thus it's quite impossible to find out when government servants in charge of undertakings misappropriate money. — Ashwin Sanghi

Thus, I believe it is possible -- following Umberto Eco and others 10 -- to understand programming languages as the latest instance of a dream and set of technologies developed by mystics, alchemists, philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. These languages do not just represent things, they also do things in the world. They are both symbolic and material in form. They are central to the disenchantment of the world and, simultaneously, the substrate for a "reenchantment of the world." 11 They are, to sacrilegiously misappropriate the lexicon of the Catholic Church, "the word incarnate." Programming languages melt the boundaries between science and religion because they are an unholy union of the two. — Anonymous

I wanted to learn about him so I could hate him more. I didn't expect his answer to make me want to forgive him. Cheating bastard ! — Stylo Fantome