Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.

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.

I just keep my cars to myself.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

I have a little Honda Del Sol that I just refuse to get rid of.

A car is only trouble at a certain point.

If I change car, I change car. I don't get very fond of things.

I've always been of the mind that what's mine is mine, and nobody can take it away from me. So when it comes, great. When it goes, great.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

I don't ever be trippin off of what ain't mine.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

People like to own things.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim