Steal Quotes - page 3

When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation.... Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame. (Laura Riding)
For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from. View quote
Roméo Dallaire
I steal from every movie ever made. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king. View quote
Bob Dylan
You will start out standing, proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees. View quote
Bob Dylan
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. View quote
John Steinbeck
But let me ask you this though, first and foremost: who's your favorite Spice Girl? Mine is Sporty Spice and I'll tell you why. You know what? She might not be as aesthetically pleasant as the rest but she'll do a backflip and steal your heart. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much. View quote
Hugo Weaving
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. (Charles Caleb Colton)
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. View quote
Theodor Herzl
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! View quote
Werner Herzog
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba. View quote
Mitt Romney
Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun. View quote
Warren Buffett
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I stole a lot when I was a kid, but I wouldn't steal one candy; I'd take the whole carton. I also used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house. View quote
Jared Leto
Steal music from napster while you have the chance. find free porn on the internet. sneak across the border into mexico just for the irony. how come every one on the internet is "hot"? tell your parents the truth. start your own army. adopt a dog. tell your children the truth. stop complaining and go out and do something about it. jump out of a fucking plane. stop reading this crap right now. don't listen to me. i don't have any answers and i stole the questions from someone else. read a good book. dont beat yourself up. question authority but don't forget to do what your told. turn off your computer right now and go outside and let people into your life. View quote
Jared Leto
About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. View quote
Bill Gates
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant. (Anton Chekhov)
I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too ... I got a song about that ... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it. View quote
James Brown
The trick is to steal big. View quote
Michael Parenti
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) View quote
William Shakespeare
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal! View quote
Thomas Edison