Pilfered Quotes

#1. I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you.

Roz Chast

#2. Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating ... too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

John Wooden

#3. Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Victor Hugo

#4. Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it ... It's none of it simple.

Harold Prince

#5. It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

David Souter

#6. The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce.

David James Duncan

#7. I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.

Louise Hay

#8. I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#9. Together again, Marie and I swam out a ways, and we felt a closeness as we moved in unison and were happy.

Albert Camus

#10. Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

John Lydon

#11. By-and-by is easily said.

William Shakespeare

#12. Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#13. He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Benjamin Disraeli

#14. Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Karen Blixen

#15. Swap out one of these men with the mute, and I'll be right as rain," Randy said from his spot near the kitchen entrance.
"Thought we were besties," Bride mumbled into the shot of rum she'd pilfered from Randy's cabinet.

Shay Rucker

#16. I can't stave off the hurt that seeps into my voice. "Why can't you be happy for me?

Emma Chase

#17. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

C.D. Wright

#18. [American Psycho] is throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety.

Andrew Motion

#19. This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

Joyce Carol Oates