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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.
Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.
There is no single 'China model' to running a mega-economy. Instead, it is a blend. From the Europeans and the Japanese, the Chinese have borrowed the concept of protecting essential industries.
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
Youngsters in Punjab have a borrowed mindset, music and fashion sense from Canada and Hollywood because a large number of our relatives are settled abroad.
Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.
As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)
The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.
I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach and brass band music.
Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.
I've worn over 6,700 gowns. They're all borrowed gowns, designer samples.
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
