Borrowed Quotes

Borrowed Quote of the day

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

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 good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

World records are only borrowed.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.