What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
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.
Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.
It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel. " (Something Borrowed)
You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.
Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.
I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school. " So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.
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.
The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was playing it and singing the song to me. I woke up-it's a borrowed melody no doubt-and wrote it down. If I hear a song and I choose not to put it down, that's me neglecting to accept that song. I think there's a very spiritual and godly-type ting that happens, and it happens to way more people than we know. It's just that very few of us choose to engage it.
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.
Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the past - the background in my work does not play a passive role.
