Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“The way my imagination was running I’d be thinking I was possessed by everyone in hell.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“But was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“It's very easy to detect the possessed by the devil for they smile right after each evil action.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her;… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm possessed by evil demons that torture me while I'm sleeping I keep dreaming of death and I'm hearing people screaming The… — Patience Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. — Ted Kotcheff Copy Share Image
The more things you possess the more you are possessed by what you possess which make you slave — Onuh Justus Izuchukwu Copy Share Image
if you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
“To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
