Quotes About Property

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.