Stealing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
-- Aaron Neville -
Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
-- Alexander Pope -
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was get it next to the Cleopatra and switch the signs.
-- Ally Carter -
Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
-- Ally Carter -
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
-- Amos Oz -
I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.
-- Andy Dick -
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald -
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
-- Anthony Anderson -
I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.
-- Arthur Darvill -
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
-- B. B. King -
When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.
-- Barack Obama -
Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.
-- Baratunde Thurston -
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
-- Barbara Corcoran -
So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
-- Barry McGuire -
I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.†“This is called you’re crazy.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
-- Ben Stein -
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
-- Beryl Bainbridge -
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
-- Beverley Nichols -
Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
-- Bill Bailey -
It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.
-- Black Francis -
Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?
-- Bob Dylan -
I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.
-- Bobby Moynihan -
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
-- Branch Rickey -
I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.
-- Brian Regan -
Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.
-- Brom -
Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?
-- Cassandra Clare -
Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
-- Chet Atkins -
I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C.
-- Chris Diamantopoulos -
He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.
-- Christine Feehan -
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
-- Christopher Nolan -
There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.
-- Creed Bratton -
Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.
-- Creed Bratton -
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-- Daniel Craig -
They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
-- David O. Selznick -
When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!
-- Dick Gregory -
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
-- Dizzy Gillespie -
If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you....you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.
-- Don Farrell -
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
-- Doug Larson -
I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.
-- Douglas Wilson -
The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
-- Elizabeth Drew -
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
-- Elizabeth I -
Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.
-- Elizabeth Towne -
I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.
-- Emiliano Zapata -
Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.
-- Emily Carr -
Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.
-- Frederic Goudy -
I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
-- Gaby Hoffmann -
I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
-- Gary Coleman -
Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.
-- Gary North -
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...
-- George Balanchine -
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
-- George Orwell -
You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.
-- George R. R. Martin -
I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.
-- George Thorogood -
There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria
-- Goodluck Jonathan -
We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it.
-- Gordon Korman -
To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.
-- Gregory Corso -
If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
-- Guthrie Govan -
Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
-- Hakim Bey -
The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
-- Henry Mayhew -
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
-- Homer -
I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.
-- Hope Solo -
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.
-- Ice Cube -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
-- Imogen Cunningham -
I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.
-- Jack Newfield -
You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
-- Jack White -
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
-- James Gates Percival -
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves
-- James Lee Burke -
Everyone steals from something or someone.
-- Janice Dickinson -
Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.
-- Jared Polis -
Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.
-- Jerome Lawrence -
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
-- Jerry Falwell -
I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay -
I’m pretty certain my worthless heart shatters inside my chest, and she steals one of the pieces. If it didn’t already belong to someone else I probably would have handed her all the pieces right then and there.
-- Jessica Sorensen -
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
-- Jim Jarmusch -
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
-- Jimmy Breslin -
Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.
-- Joe Lando