Kate Chopin Quotes

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

People used to trade their guitars to get new ones; I never traded anything.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

I felt I was owned by possessions.

I'm not a collector.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

Every one loves his country, his manners, his language, his wife, his children; not because they are the best in the World, but because they are absolutely his own, and he loves himself and his own labors in them.

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

The things I own are sacred.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.