Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.
I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.
In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.
. . . and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger. . . it's just in my blood.
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there. '
They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis
In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.
. . . . for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I'd been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [. . . ] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [. . . ] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy - he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.
I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.
Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U. S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.
Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U. S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.