#possessed

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#amused #called #cut #dress #exercise

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#backwards #brain #cat #did #diminished

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#blamed #committed #credit #crimes #evens

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#acceptance #challenge #character #child #choice

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." ↗

— Joseph Addison

#away #cannot #charitable #epitaph #gave

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. ↗

— Junichiro Koizumi

#appeal #backdrop #beautiful #come #complete

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.' ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#courtship #destruction #had #him #hussein

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. ↗

— Brian May

#excitement #grit #guitar #kind #nothing

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. ↗

— George Meredith

#felicity #object #obligation #possessed #possession

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came? ↗

— Billy Sunday

#came #given #never #possessed #world