#ownership

[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine." (A Qualified Farewell) ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#ownership #solitude #writing #writing-craft

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#ownership #reasonable #regarding #regulations #weapons

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#came #concepts #exchanged #land #ownership

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#control #earth #eminently #foundation #land

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear. ↗

— Art Modell

#quality

When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#came #changed #decisions #i #interest

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#freedom #our #ownership #private #private ownership

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean. ↗

— Bode Miller

#am #i #i do #know #mean

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#claiming #freed #freeing #one thing #ownership

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#fund #idea #machine #manufacture #ownership