Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Massenet

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

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.

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.

John Adams

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

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.

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

William Walker

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

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.

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.

Ian Mcewan

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Harry Caray

I figure I had no business being here this long anyway, so what do you care how old I am? I've been on borrowed time for years. You know my old saying: live it up, the meter's running. I've always said that if you don't have fun while you're here, then it's your fault. You only get to do this once.

By the time we got here, there were no exit signs left. But luckily two people who borrowed them brought them back to us.

Harold Wilson

I moved in here 12 years ago to die. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I was told I had five years to live. I've been living on borrowed time for seven years.

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.