Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.
There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy. " "Wow, you're wearing each other's clothes now. That's, like, best friend stuff. " "Feeling left out?" said Kyle. "I suppose you want to borrow a black T-shirt too. " "As long as everyone's wearing their own pants. " "I see have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation. " Eric poked his head through the curtain.
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and if they publish it, maybe no one will read it. That is the hard truth, that is what it means to be a writer.
The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.