Stealing Things Quotes

• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Imagination, Bodies Of Water

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• The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

  J. H. Oldham

  Children, Sleep, Kissing

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Feelings

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Immature, Different, Imitating Others

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Apples, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.

  Roland Smith

  Should Have, Years, Jake

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• My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember

  Elizabeth Scott

  Names, Long, Remember

  Elizabeth Scott (2008). “Stealing Heaven”, Harper Collins

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• One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

  Wil Wheaton

  Crazy, Hollywood, Belief

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Honestly, I love stealing things.

  Creed Bratton

  Stealing, Honestly

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• Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, World, Occupation

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