Stolen Idea Quotes

#1. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Winston Churchill

#2. Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Eric Hoffer

#3. You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you've got one you're trying to argue it away. People who don't believe in miracles shouldn't pray for them.

David Wilkerson

#4. Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

Anand Gopal

#5. All good things spring from Self-Love

N. Sophronia Crosby

#6. In barbaric lands like the Americas, writers produced their best work before learning the craft, and nine times out of ten, their book was the strongest, as well as being, in general, the only one they wrote.

Cesar Aira

#7. When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

John Slattery

#8. Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like love, cannot ever be stolen away, just as it cannot ever have belonged to me and only me.

Kristopher Jansma

#9. 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

#10. The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Eric Fischl

#11. 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

#12. On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Karl Kraus

#13. Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

Dennis Oli

#14. I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

Mervyn Peake

#15. It's generally more fun playing the villain.

Charlie Hunnam

#16. If, in Him all things hold together, why would anyone ever want to be apart from Him?

Van Harden

#17. 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

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

Daniel Handler

#19. Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it.

Clarice Lispector

#20. The purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.)

Frederic Bastiat

#21. To quote one Valley sage, if your idea is any good, it won't get stolen, you'll have to jam it down people's throats instead.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

#22. You dole out these stolen little pieces for yourself. You've been doing it for so long that you not only have no idea what you need, you have no idea what anyone else might need, either. No one is all or nothing. Grown-ups don't need someone to be all or nothing.

Mary Ann Rivers

#23. The longer you wait, the harder it is to provide outstanding customer service.

Bill Davidow