Stealing Quotes - Page 23

• The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.

  Jay Leno

  Player, Names, Houston

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• I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

  Ice Cube

  Way, Not Sure, No Money

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Upset, Intellectual

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

  John Fogerty

  Controversy

  Song: Vanz Kant Danz

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• Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

  Phil Ochs

  Mother, Games, Lines

  Song: The Harder They Fall

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• The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.

  Iamblichus

  Names, Firsts, Separation

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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• When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

  Conan O'Brien

  Visionaries, Financial, Republican

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• Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Cheating, Children, Lying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 295), 1895.

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• People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

  George Michael

  Heart, Feel Better, People

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• The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Kissing, Advice

  Song: The Pirate Of Penance, Album: Song to a Seagull

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• I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Tears, Remember, Seven

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Shooting, Maximizing, Wheels

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• I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

  Mark Hoppus

  Mom, Night, Car

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• The relationship between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.

  Frank Iero

  Heartbroken, Night, Sick

  "My Chemical Romance sack drummer for 'stealing'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.

  Jenna Jameson

  People, Sides, Sticks

  "Jenna Jameson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 7, 2008.

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• One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

  Mike Judge

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Doe, Feels

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, Read Books Ltd

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• Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

  Mason Cooley

  Innovation, Tradition

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• Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Law, Bears

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Clothes, Long

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• A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Poverty, Cry

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• Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Play, Pirate, Pockets

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

  Josh Billings

  Lying, Attention, Politics

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• Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They could tell something was up when a guy named Barack Obama was trying to take money from banks instead of giving it to them.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Texas, Giving

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