Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

Woody Allen

Taste my tuna casserole - tell me if I put in too much hot fudge.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Samuel Liles

They're not stealing from us, they're stealing from God. This is God's house.

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

T. S. Eliot

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Roma Downey

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

Thomas Gray

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Swami Vivekananda

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.