Borrowed Quotes - Page 2

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

  Barbara Corcoran

  Dollars, Stories, Billions

  Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield (2011). “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business”, p.11, Penguin

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• You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

  Sarah Dessen

  Tic Tacs, Gum, Esther

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.93, Penguin

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• Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

  Alan Greenspan

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

  "Bush tax cuts - a decider for the midterms?". www.nbcnews.com. August 2, 2010.

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Genre

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• Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

  Mike Huckabee

  Cutting, Necks, Trouble

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• I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Sound, Investment, Borrowed Money

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• 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 borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sex, Two, People

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• No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Airplane, Flying, Twins

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• We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, America, Done

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Birthday, Sentimental, Said

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• 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 his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Passion, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Self, Two

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• 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 purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.]

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Cat, Magic

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• 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 there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?

  Haruki Murakami

  Husband, Views, People

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.

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• You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

  Emily Giffin

  Average, Ordinary

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• And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Book, Reading

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• 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

  Desert, Saws, Ends

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• 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 become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Writing, Helping Others

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• 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 a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Ideas, People

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• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

  Dale Carnegie

  Jesus, Book, Ideas

  Newsweek, August 08, 1955.

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• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Sound, Libertarian, Discouraging

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• 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.

  Agatha Christie

  Death, Waiting, Dying

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.2, Best Books on

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

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ideas, People, Standing Out

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Walter Benjamin

  Death, Stories, Storytelling

  "Illuminations".

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