I used to consume a lot of horror movies as a teenager, and some impressed me more than other ones. I would watch Romero’s movies, Dario Argento’s movies, ‘Eraserhead’ over and over. ‘Possession,’ ‘Repulsion,’ ‘Freaks.’
Karen is as good a coach’s wife as I’ve ever been around, and she’s better than most. She loves basketball and has a great understanding of my responsibilities, my possession.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He’s not from a different country. He’s from a different planet.
Both when you defend and when you attack it needs to be about possession and positioning is vital.
The most dazzling aspect of ‘Possession’ is Ms. Byatt’s canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
When I see a game on the television, and you see afterwards ‘possession percentage 60-40,’ that doesn’t say anything for me because it could be that one team is playing the ball between the back four 120 times.
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession – a hive occupied by generations of bees.
I want my team to play well almost all of the time and have possession of the ball.
You have to have guys that will compete every night, every possession.
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
That’s a wonderful thing, to take possession of the role that you’re playing.
I have always been comfortable in possession, but it is tracking and tackling that I have been working on.
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
With Bayern, we want a lot of ball possession and to control the play, so I operate sometimes like the 11th outfield player. Thus I am included a lot into the build-up play and have a lot of touches of the ball.
When you have two-thirds of possession in any match you have got to turn that pressure into points.
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons – in some cases even the testing of these weapons – is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad’s camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me – his personal things mean a lot.
The secret for someone in my position is to keep it simple. Keep possession and keep the ball moving quickly so that you tire out your opponents; that’s my method.
I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land – how it’s sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
I come from a Napoli team who scored 104 goals. Do you think I’m going to be hyper-defensive with Real Madrid? A team that creates chances and is great in possession is not defensive.
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
We’re all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
The Iraqi people will not allow any country to take possession of their own resources.
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
The most important thing about being on a football pitch is having options. That’s what makes players look good. If you get the ball in possession and you look up and you’ve got three or four options, it’s so much easier just having one or maybe two.
Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you’ve published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, ‘Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.’
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book ‘Fight Club’ by Chuck Palahniuk.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
When you are a coach, you are watching how the team is positioning itself on the field – if your team is in possession of the ball, you are already anticipating what could happen if you lose the ball.
It’s always irked me that they always say the white receiver has great hands or runs great routes or is a possession receiver.
That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it’s, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it’s our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
I think our young people are our most precious possession.
United fans don’t care if the team only has 40 per cent possession as long as they are watching an attacking team. My experience was that the supporters understood that even our best teams, even the teams with Peter Schmeichel or Edwin van der Sar in goal, were going to concede goals.
Sin is basically a denial of God’s right of possession.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf ’cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it’s going to be difficult.
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
In the postseason, every possession counts, so it’s the little things.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Don’t take any possession for granted.
I have ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
I want to play against the best, and that’s what I’m doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.
