The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow. " So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N. Y. C.
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
The words you can't find, you borrow.
As an actor, I look at first what I can borrow from what I really feel.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.
Never call a man a fool; borrow from him
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk back.
Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.
I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow from different cultures and different sounds, and to be eclectic. And that's great in terms of dynamics, but it also tends to not have that torpedo and fire running through it. If you're spreading yourself out across the globe, you're also not emphasizing a singular point, which I think great rock music has always done.
Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.