
“I don't care that they stole my idea.. I care that they don't have any of their own”
A collection of quotes on the topic of stole, use, doing, likeness.
“I don't care that they stole my idea.. I care that they don't have any of their own”
“I never stole in my childhood, so there was no question of apologising to my father.”
Godse referring to Gandhi's autobiographical story, where Gandhi stole a piece of gold from his father's watch and later on apologised to his father
Excerpts from the play Mee Nathuram Godse boltoy
Variant: You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
Source: A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
The Guardian - The best God joke ever - and it's mine! (September 1980)
1977 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWsxCrMM1U in Pitkin County Prison, Colorado
Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence (1941), translated by Charles Malamuth, p. 412
“It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online.”
Asked what the narrator in "Ride The Lightning" did to earn the death penalty
[James Hetfield And Kirk Hammett Look Back On Metallica's "Ride The Lightning", http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/06/metallica_ride_the_lightning_interview.php?page=2, Village Voice, 20 June 2012]
"The Chantry Of The Cherubim" in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917) by D. H. S. Nicholson.
Context: p>I buoyed me on the wings of dream,
Above the world of sense;
I set my thought to sound the scheme,
And fathom the Immense;
I tuned my spirit as a lute
To catch wind-music wandering mute.Yet came there never voice nor sign;
But through my being stole
Sense of a Universe divine,
And knowledge of a soul
Perfected in the joy of things,
The star, the flower, the bird that sings.Nor I am more, nor less, than these;
All are one brotherhood;
I and all creatures, plants, and trees,
The living limbs of God;
And in an hour, as this, divine,
I feel the vast pulse throb in mine.</p
“The ancients stole all our great ideas.”
Attested at least in 1780 https://books.google.ru/books?id=nUpWAAAAYAAJ&q=Ancients&pg=PA32 (by John Hope):
Now, the Devil confound those Ancients, for they have stolen all my good thoughts from me!
Misattributed
“Some contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch …”
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1940)
Source: Shadow Souls
“A NICE THOUGHT
One was a book thief.
The other stole the sky.”
Variant: One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
Source: The Book Thief
“O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away”
Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.”
Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724); the Latin indicates "liberty and my native land", and Whitshed was a chief justice enraged by The Drapier's Letters
"My Mother Doesn't Know I'm on the Stage", line 11
To My People (July 4, 1973)
2007
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19499&PN=0&TPN=1
On the idea of comic fans utilizing the Internet to interact and share their hobby with each other
I Didn't Come Here to Argue, "My Feud With Food," page 22.
Reportaje de Oriana Fallaci a Leopoldo F. Galtieri http://archivohistorico.educ.ar/content/reportaje-de-oriana-fallaci-leopoldo-f-galtieri#sthash.ZQrMQt2O.dpuf, Revista El porteño, August 1982
“He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.”
Book viii, line 616.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
Linden Arden Stole the Highlights
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter II: Europe’s Downfall; Section 1, “Europe and America” (pp. 34-35)
From Running Wild, p. 105
Other Topics
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 136
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Havoc (2003)
The Confession of My Crimes
“O fol of alle foles,
Thou farst as he betwen tuo stoles
That wolde sitte and goth to grounde.”
Bk. 4, line 625.
Confessio Amantis
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part I: It Seems There Were Two Egyptians, Hatshepsut
Speech on Al-Aqsa TV, Video with English captions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UT6grrx8do (5th November 2012)
15 March 1855 (p. 270)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
The River of Dreams.
Song lyrics, River of Dreams (1993)
c. 1960
Source: 1960 - 1968, Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960, pp. 153-154
Values Voter Summit 2011-10-08, quoted in * Beck: "There Is A Race War That Is Going On In Our Country"
Media Matters for America
2011-10-08
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110080003
2011-08-17
2010s, 2011
Technology Trends: Looking Back at 2015 http://itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/technology-trends-looking-back-at-2015.html in IT Business Edge (29 December 2015)
Variant: I stole every nickel, dime and dollar and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and bask on all the worlds most famous beaches.
Source: Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, 2002, Ch.1 Pg.4(a), Ch.1 Pg. 11(b),Back cover(c), Ch.6 Pg.116(d)
"Love Reign o'er Me"
Lyrics and poetry
Exchange with Floyd Landis, at Stage 17 of the Tour de France as reported in "Score another for Armstrong" in VeloNews (22 July 2004) http://velonews.com/article/6638
"Exito (online newspaper)" (October 1997)
2007, 2008
“I'm not claiming to be clean. I also stole a lot, but it's all used up. So, it's gone.”
Livestream: 140th founding anniversary of the Philippine Chinese Charitable Association, Inc. (PCCAI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHdEnLY1GtQ&feature=youtu.be&t=3993 (Jun 28, 2017)
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
"The Man Who Came to Stay"
Lyrics and poetry
"The Big Sleep" from "Everything Goes Numb" (2003) http://risc.perix.co.uk/lyrics/sm/egn/12/
I didn't want to do another English dance party.
As quoted in "Patricia Rozema : The Mermaid's Song" interview with Patricia Rozema, in The View from Here : Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers (2007) by Matthew Hays, p. 289
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 15
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Eagle (1981)
Calling Lou Brock's career record breaking 893rd stolen base in 1977.
1970s
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
Poem: The Jackdaw of Rheims http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html
Source: Cider with Rosie (1959), p. 50.
Statements after the arrest of two aid workers from World Vision and the United Nations — Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel 'cares more about Palestinians than their own leaders do' after Gaza aid worker arrests http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-cares-more-about-palestinians-than-own-leaders-gaza-world-vision-un-hamas-a7186481.html, The Independent (12 August 2016)
2010s, 2016
As quoted in "Ruth Considers Ty Cobb As Greatest of Players" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55058790/
“For to those who have not the means within themselves of a virtuous and happy life every age is burdensome; and, on the other hand, to those who seek all good from themselves nothing can seem evil that the laws of nature inevitably impose. To this class old age especially belongs, which all men wish to attain and yet reproach when attained; such is the inconsistency and perversity of Folly! They say that it stole upon them faster than they had expected. In the first place, who has forced them to form a mistaken judgement? For how much more rapidly does old age steal upon youth than youth upon childhood? And again, how much less burdensome would old age be to them if they were in their eight hundredth rather than in their eightieth year? In fact, no lapse of time, however long, once it had slipped away, could solace or soothe a foolish old age.”
Quibus enim nihil est in ipsis opis ad bene beateque vivendum, eis omnis aetas gravis est; qui autem omnia bona a se ipsi petunt, eis nihil potest malum videri quod naturae necessitas afferat. quo in genere est in primis senectus, quam ut adipiscantur omnes optant, eandem accusant adeptam; tanta est stultitiae inconstantia atque perversitas. obrepere aiunt eam citius quam putassent. primum quis coegit eos falsum putare? qui enim citius adulescentiae senectus quam pueritiae adulescentia obrepit? deinde qui minus gravis esset eis senectus, si octingentesimum annum agerent, quam si octogesimum? praeterita enim aetas quamvis longa, cum effluxisset, nulla consolatione permulcere posset stultam senectutem.
section 4 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0039%3Asection%3D4
Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (44 BC)
(1836-2) (Vol.47) Songs-IV.
The Monthly Magazine
“But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.”
The Mary Gloster.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
Ballad upon a Wedding. Compare: "Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again", Robert Herrick, To Mistress Susanna Southwell.
Other poems
“Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.”
The Manifesto, Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 1 (1998)
Albums, Singles and compilations
On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ (16 April 2016)
On a heroine in Tales of the South Pacific (1947) in Commercial Appeal (31 December 1951)
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)