Owners Quotes - Page 39

• After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.

  Bob Beauprez

  Thinking, Tunnels, Light

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• All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

  C. S. Lewis

  Names, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.100, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

  Alberto Manguel

  Wall, Book, Reflection

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.175, Vintage Canada

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• It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

  Anne Fadiman

  Long, Library, Belief

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.21, Macmillan

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• A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

  Baroness Orczy

  Heart, Problem, Complexes

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.127, Xist Publishing

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• In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Country, Taken, Heart

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• I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Ocean, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.79, Penguin

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• The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.

  Paul Quarrington

  Men, Giving, Pet

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• You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.

  P. C. Cast

  Cat, Staff, Know How

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.459, Macmillan

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• The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

  Alfred de Vigny

  Girl, Wife, Mistress

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• A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

  Louis L'Amour

  Home, Mind, Chance

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.97, Bantam

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• We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild salsa because the other ones really hawt!

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

  John Grogan

  Dog

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• Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, People, Looks

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Shadow Of The Wind, Shops

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Pages

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.625, Scholastic Inc.

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• All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

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• There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.

  Cesar Millan

  Problem, Shortage

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2006). “Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems”, p.99, Crown Archetype

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• To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

  Joseph Heller

  Ideas, Class, Tennis

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

  Polly Horvath

  Horizon, World, Realizing

  Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.23, Schwartz & Wade

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• the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Book, Hands, Trying

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Intelligent, Men, Hands

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• There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Distance, Eye

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

  Emily Dickinson

  Gun, Loaded, Corners

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• Nick, space. Now. (Acheron) Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian’s number on it. ‘In case of loss, call my owner.’ (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loss, Boys, Numbers

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.331, Macmillan

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