Borrowed Quotes

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Godsmack holds the record for Billboard`s longest running Top 10 single, "Whatever"—33 weeks. Godsmack borrowed $2500 from a friend to record their first CD. "Greed" was written in response to the same friend. "(`Greed`) is about this kid who was a tight friend of ours, who lent us the money to record our indie version of Godsmack and didn`t want any money back. But in return we paid him back, and then another 10 grand on top of that as a thanks! Then he tried to sue, saying he owned 10 percent of us. He put me through a year of hell negotiating with lawyers," explained Sully. Sully Erna is a practicing Witch of the Celtic Religion (WICCA) under Salem Witch Laurie Cabot. The Earth-respecting religion is integrated in many of Godsmack`s songs and Sully`s daily life. "It`s been my salvation. A lot of people are confused about witchcraft, it`s simply about worshipping the power of the earth, and that`s it! It`s a positive religion that has helped me through a lot of bad times." Godsmack recorded Awake in a "smelly-@$$ed dump warehouse in the middle of crack-ville Massachusetts." "There was a boxing gym downstairs, if we were hungry, we`d run out and get a crappy fast-food cheeseburger. We didn`t want to be surrounded in luxury, we wanted to keep the edge on," remembers Sully.

- Sully Erna

On "Foster Child", her brother Buddy Foster`s unauthorized biography about her: "A cheap cry for attention and money filled with hazy recollections, fantasies and borrowed press releases. Buddy has done nothing but break our mother`s heart his whole life."

- Jodie Foster

When I was a kid I saw Kansas City Bomber (1972), and I remembered thinking how beautiful and how strong Raquel Welch`s character was. So I went home and dressed up my Barbie like her character. I borrowed one of my brother`s little toy plastic football helmets and I made Barbie a Kansas City Bomber outfit.

- Sherilyn Fenn

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn`t luckily have to bother about that.

- Agatha Christie

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

- Herbie Hancock

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

- Ivan Reitman

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

- Johnny Rivers

I started messing around with the family 8mm camera or a borrowed VHS camera so I could make my own bloody special effects scenes.

- Richard King

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

- David Dinkins

In the labour market, women are favoured. There are prospects closer to our nature, and values that can be our own, not borrowed.

- Emma Bonino

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.

- Byron Dorgan

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man`s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

- Agnes Martin

Java has borrowed much from C++, but not as much as is often claimed and not with as much taste and understanding as one could have wished for.

- Al Tompkins

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

- Alison Morano

I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign nations. That is selling our country to other nations because of the spending that is going on.

- Allen Perry

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

- Amanda McLean

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

- Andrea Foulkes

World records are only borrowed.

- Andrea Kottler

As we discussed earlier today, any money borrowed for the Social Security trust fund has been guaranteed with special U.S. Treasury bonds.

- Andreas Schurig

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We`re so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we`re living day to day.

- Andrei Kirilenko

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

- Andrew Klenert

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

- Andrew Lester

Essentially, what the court found is that Mrs. King borrowed money from the clerk and she owed that money to the clerk.

- Ann Talbert

Some sellers think about selling, but after they realize how much they owe and how much they can sell for, they realize they can`t afford to sell. Usually, it`s because they borrowed too much.

- Annette Bauer

We have always said we will protect this from the plight of horrendous situations at other clubs who have gone into administration because they borrowed money and built up debts. They wake up one morning and the bank manager says `I want my money back` and you go out of business or into administration. We would never allow that to happen at Birmingham.

- Anthony Parham

Just like a Super Bowl football team, you need a game plan to pull off a successful party. That plan begins with the decision to throw a party and doesn`t end until you return the last rented or borrowed item.

- Anthony Wood

If you are a shorter person it is important for the blazer not to look too big -- like you borrowed it from your dad.

- Barbara Upton

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one`s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else`s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

- Oscar Wilde

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

- Abraham Flexner

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don`t think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn`t even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don`t know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.

- Robert Inchausti