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)