#posse

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#always #any #creative #first #functioning

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#considered #everything #exacting #goes #less

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#experiences #fact #i #just #love

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ↗

— James Douglas

#dark #dawn #garden #good #good idea

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#day #death #else #forever #found

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#man #possesses #talent

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#always #bound #considered #down #even

All my possessions for a moment of time. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#possessions #time

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#addict #admire #books #characters #created