Quotes About Ownership

Je suis moins tenté de l'argent que des choses, parce qu'entre l'argent et la possession désirée il y a toujours un intermédiaire ; au lieu qu'entre la chose même et sa jouissance il n'y en a point.

If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.

There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.

There was nothing to compare with standing on a ice of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.

Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans

Freedom of the press belongs to anyone who owns one

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Faire souffrir c'est posséder et créer tout autant que détruire.

Mais comme mes regards tombaient sur le bloc de feuilles blanches, je fus saisi par son aspect et je restai, la plume en l'air, à contempler ce papier éblouissant : comme il était dur et voyant, comme il était présent. Il n'y avait rien en lui que du présent. Les lettres que je venais d'y tracer n'étaient pas encore sèches et déjà elles ne m'appartenaient plus.

Non ci si può mettere il passato in tasca; bisogna avere una casa per sistemarvelo. Io non possiedo che il mio corpo; un uomo completamente solo, col suo corpo soltanto, non può fermare i ricordi, gli passano attraverso. Non dovrei lagnarmi: il mio solo desiderio è stato d'esser libero.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.