Top 21 Quotes About Stolen Ideas: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Stolen Ideas

#1. I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

Philip Pullman

#2. Confound these ancestors ... They've stolen our best ideas!

Ben Jonson

#3. I've always had the opinion that we have shamelessly stolen any good ideas,

Brad Stone

#4. I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Daniel Handler

#5. Of course, your ideas can be stolen ... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment ... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

Peter Wolf

#6. Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars.
'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary, and unanimous. If the sight of the warriors wasn't enough to stoke their curiosity, there was rumor of a 'rare opportunity'.

Laini Taylor

#7. When describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.

Andrew Solomon

#8. Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car."
"Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing.
"Right, right, even though she was a man.

Banana Yoshimoto

#9. There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#10. All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea. Ideas and concepts in this world, in our lives, and in our imagination are much more finite than any of us would care to believe.

Connor De Bruler

#11. Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints.

Sumner Davenport

#12. For several years the researchers did not let anyone else in on their work, not because they were afraid it would be stolen, but because they were afraid that their colleagues would laugh at their seemingly crazy ideas.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#13. Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.

Dawna Markova

#14. We have stolen many ideas from many intellectuals we have ever read.

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#15. Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

John Dufresne