Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Massenet

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

When I heard Evans on radio saying I borrowed money from him, I was most embarrassed.

Shooters start with borrowed weapons and seniors are more than willing to oblige and #8230; the sense of well-being pervades everywhere.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

We're living on borrowed time. We have to demonstrate what we can do on our own before it is taken out of our hands.

Alan Greenspan

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

We begged, borrowed and stole $40,000 to finance the project.

Jim Lee

I borrowed more money than I ever imagined borrowing. We finished three models and, within six months, the worst housing recession in the history of the state hit. You couldn't sell a house for what you built it for. It was terrible. We were going to lose everything.

I am using my own computer. I am using a borrowed projector. The Power Point (presentation) I assembled. In terms of whatever complaints they have about presentations that were given at City Council, they were done objectively presenting the facts,

Jack Zipes

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

Ken Russell

There is no excuse these days for someone who wants to make movies; you just need yourself, one tape and a borrowed camera.

John Adams

Had we known it was 9/11 money, we would not have borrowed it.

He was concerned about going back to the board, ... I do remember saying 'You have to do something,' and he left. I was kind of surprised that there were any transactions from internal accounts. I thought the $1.5 million we borrowed at the start of the month and the $3 million that the school district borrowed later that month would have been sufficient.

Gary Johnson

I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.

Ferdinand Marcos

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

While we are pleased with the level of post-petition financing we were able to obtain, we must stop using borrowed money to fund our losses.

It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it

Voltaire

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

We feel he has been living on borrowed time for about 32 years, or whatever it was, and we were happy to have him.

Greg Graffin

Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the '90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it's timeless.

People run up credit cards to live a certain lifestyle and when the cards run out, so does the lifestyle. If you live a life on borrowed money, it's going to catch up with you.

William Walker

Essentially, what the court found is that Mrs. King borrowed money from the clerk and she owed that money to the clerk.

A lot of that was borrowed by the second quarter in the first quarter. I think it is indicative of weakness in the second quarter.

The state is in violation of its own law. There are definitely response issues. We are on borrowed time right now for another serious incident.

There's no testimony that he ever used it, possessed it, borrowed it.

Pierce Brosnan

In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.'

Joe Meno

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

Lynn Swann

I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.

Peter Thiel

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.