Owners Quotes - Page 7

• If it rusts, it can never be trusted
  If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him
  Yes, pride is
  Like a blade.

  Tite Kubo

  Pride, Cutting, Bleach

  "Bleach". Manga Series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

  Jonathan Franzen

  Country, Using People, Heart

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.548, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Names, Shame

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.2360, e-artnow

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dog, Hands, Guests

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Hands, Path Of Love

  30 Copy quote

• Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

  A.M. Homes

  Book

  16 Copy quote

• How have you been? You’re still as beautiful as ever.” “As are you, my dear. I love your shoes.” “Aren’t they delightful? I saw them and just had to have them. Their previous owner wasn’t too keen to let them go, but I can be very persuasive when I want to be.” “Is that her blood on the left one?” “And no amount of scrubbing will get it out, either.

  Derek Landy

  Beautiful, Blood, Shoes

  4 Copy quote

• Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Men, Differences

  Albert Payson Terhune (1993). “Lad: A Dog”, p.10, Penguin

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.

  Jo Nesbo

  Religious, Stars, Believe

  7 Copy quote

• Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Inspire

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.161, Robert Kiyosaki

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Summer, Jobs, Writing

  "Kitchen Confidential". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.

  Tove Jansson

  Beautiful, Tree, Wreaths

  11 Copy quote

• Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Air, Order

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One more thing. I sold the mustang. Too conspicuous. Don't get too excited, but I bought you a little something with the extra cash. I heard you've had your eye on a Volkswagen. The owner is dropping it by tomorrow. I paid for a full tank of gas, so make sure she delivers.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Tanks, Cash

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

  George Carlin

  School, Ideas, Giving

  15 Copy quote

• Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Brain, Done

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Castles, Dungeons, Respectable

  4 Copy quote

• Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Practice, Space

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.100, Random House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

  Ayn Rand

  Law, Purpose, Return

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.443, Hamilton Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Moving, Intellectual, Comfort

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Heart, Divided, Captives

  10 Copy quote

• Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Running, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Trying

  5 Copy quote

• We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

  William H. Gass

  Liars, Mean, Wings

  4 Copy quote

• Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Drunk, Doe, Gone

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source