Borrow Quotes

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
Walter Murch

Real, Made, Friends

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
Iain Duncan Smith

Money, Reading, Growth

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
Evan Davis

Wonder, Potential, Effect

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.
Jeffrey Kluger

Today, Tomorrow, Idea

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
Leon Panetta

Money, Care, Give

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

Good, Great, Writers

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Good, Lovely, Shoes

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Beautiful, Mother, Getting

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Life, Money, Dad

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
Simon Travaglia

Yourself, Someone, Else

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. King

Anybody, Steals

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska

Hard, Words, Try

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.
Ron Chernow

Down, Put, Against

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
Lucinda Williams

Time, Long, Sometimes

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
Paula Poundstone

Time, Talk, Community

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
Timothy Geithner

Good, Government, Finance

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Love, Best, Tired

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.
Mike Pence

Today, Reality, Mean

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
Philip Emeagwali

Nature, Problem, Analogous

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Philip Emeagwali

Nature, Reinvent, Smarter

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
Thomas Tusser

Gay, Pay, Credit

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
Emily Procter

Weather, College, News

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
Rudy Giuliani

Great, Down, America

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. King

Good, Money, Down

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
John Hume

Before, Working, Poor

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
Jeffrey Sachs

Successful, Living, Here

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.
Martin Feldstein

Finance, Real, American

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson

Money, Sometimes, Luck

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.
Steve Buscemi

End, Few, Voice

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
Edward F. Halifax

Men, Opinions, Debts

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