#owned

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#because #elections #every #fair #finance

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#carson #johnny #johnny carson #know #owned

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#died #last #last year #many #old

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#frowned #mainstream #marriage #mentions #over

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#creative #fashion #had #his #homeless

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife. ↗

— Roger Stone

#blue jeans #i #jeans #met #never

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. ↗

— John Strachan

#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#look #memory #mine #nothing #only

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#again #day #drowned #going #man