#steal

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#desert #i #i can #outside #people

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back." ↗

— Sophia Loren

#announcing #away #back #because #best

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#back #class #computer #days #first

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#adventure #causing #challenge #computer #curiosity

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#civilization #economic #favor #make #most

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#dream #go #i #if i could #myself

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. ↗

— George Orwell

#dickens #stealing #those #well #who

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#glory #gray #gray hair #hair #love

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#britain #combined #considerably #corporation #economy