I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!
There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal, or claim something is the fruit of their labors when it really is someone else's.
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?
The trick is to steal big.
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.
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full. . . of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!
I want to create no matter what methods I have to use. And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use. Given that which of us is the greater sinner?
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
One should steal only where one cannot rob.
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it. "
We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it.