Top 9 Stealing Things Quotes

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

T. S. Eliot

Art, Unique, Stealing Things

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Jim Jarmusch

Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

T. S. Eliot

Stealing Things, Immature, Different

1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

Steve Jobs

Believe, Apples, Stealing Things

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Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Malcolm Mclaren

Art, Stealing Things, World

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

Wil Wheaton

Crazy, Stealing Things, Hollywood

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Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.

Roland Smith

Stealing Things, Should Have, Years