Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

    For that fine madness still he did retain
    Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.
    Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
    Jane Addams (1860–1935)