Owner Quotes

366 Owner quotes by 317 unique authors

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. — Casey Stengel
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where… — Jonathan Swift
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. — Jonathan Swift
My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I… — Michael Symon
No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer… — Alvaro Uribe
People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you… — Jay Weatherill
Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. — James Wolcott
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. — Loretta Young
Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help… — Regina Brett
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor. — Chuck Palahniuk
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to… — Helene Hanff
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the… — Pablo Neruda
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… — Alberto Manguel
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… — Anne Fadiman
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
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… — Alexandre Dumas
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,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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… — Paul Quarrington
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives — Alfred de Vigny
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… — Louis L'Amour
There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner. — John Grogan
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
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
a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages. — Cornelia Funke

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