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“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. The best way to sell yourself to the boss is by selling that which he has to sell to someone else.”
Coleman Cox, Listen to this, San Francisco, 1922, p. 1.

Karliene (Thunderdome, 1985) — We Don’t Need Another Hero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicfjT2fsOI

“Her movements were constrained: she had been bound, and both her arms were now securely pinned. She groaned and told him, ‘You would not have won without the intervention of the gods,’ and then appeared to him in her own form, and he achieved what he desired to, and filled her womb with fabulous Achilles.”
[Tum denum ingemuit, ne que ait sine numine vincis exhibita estque Thetis: confessam amplectitur heros et potitur votis ingentique inplet Achille.]
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XI, l. 263-265, [virgin Thetis & Peleus].

Bjork (Sucker Punch, 2011) — Army Of Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flYwt_z_LUY

Fenris: This is an act. The mage makes himself out to be harmless.

“Writing is not survival of the fittest but survival of the survivors. What are the critics They do their best to cheapen me, to make me of no account—and if I cannot endure it, I deserve it all.”
Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club, Chapter XXI, 2003 [Oliver Wendell Holmes].

Samantha shall visit Fenris to befriend him; intelligence & cares slide a long way. 
Meredith destroys Alistair’s Ferelden ship & Anders explodes Elthina’s cathedral.

Alison Krauss — It Doesn’t Matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DPkp46cE4

“So I had to put up with a man in bed,
 though much against my will.”
Homer, Iliad, Book XVII, lines 538-539 [Thetis].

“Thou wilt not here deny thine aid, but say 
If further to the right in vain were sought 
Some exit from this depth, or if we need 
A loth return to make, and intercede 
With those black angels that we left.”
Dante, Inferno, Canto XXIII.

“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
Winston Churchill.

Rival Aveline must be ignored: hypocrite & traitorous she allied with the templars. 
Though she tries entrapment & then flees, Donnic & his guards shall cut her down.

Rihanna — Diamonds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-DFVa3GwJw

“Then is Peleus said to have caught fire with love of Thetis, and then Thetis not disdain mortal espousals, then did the Father himself know in his heart that Peleus must be joined to Thetis. O ye, in happiest time of ages born, hail, heroes, sprung from gods!” 
[tum Thetidis Peleus incensus fertur amore, tum Thetis humanos non despexit hymenaeos, tum Thetidi pater ipse iugandum Pelea sensit. O nimis optato saeclorum tempore nati heroes, salvete, deum genus]
Catullus, Ode LXIV, l. 19-23.

Sia — Fist Fighting a Sandstorm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=petfllIgkkg

“What presently belongs to no one [quod nullius est] becomes by natural reason the property of the first taker [occupans]... Any of these things which we take, however, are regarded as ours for so long as they are governed by our control [custodia]. But when they escape from our custody and return to their natural state of freedom, they cease to be ours and are again open to the first taker.”
Gaius, Digeste, 41, 1, 1–3, trans A. Watson.

“The whole world, all Mankind must take care, that all places be emprov’d, as farre as may be, to the best advantage of Mankinde in generall.”
John Donne, Sermon to the Virginia Company in November 1622, quoted in Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 124.

“Unowned things can thus be acquired by anybody, Roman citizen or not, under the law of nations (ius gentium) by taking them (i.e., by occupatio). The effective seizure of an unowned thing was sufficient for establishing ownership, occupatio being an instant conveyer of ownership... It is not simply the first person to see the treasure to become the owner, but the first person effectively to control the treasure. Still, discovery seems to be important in the Roman sources and adds a key element not contained in the rules underlying the doctrine of res nullius, one that was to be of great significance.”
Laura Benton & Benjamin Strauman, Acquiring Empire by Law, Law and History Review, February 2010, p. 35.

1. Armory v. Delamirie (1722), 1 Strange 505, 9 ER 664; Lord Chief Justice Pratt: a chimney-sweep’s boy, who found a jewel during the course of his work, has such a property as will enable him to keep it against all but the rightful owner.

2. Bridges v. Hawkesworth (1851), 15 Jur. 1079, 21 LJQB 75; Lord Patterson: Bridges can claim some banknotes found on the floor of a shop.

3. Parker v. British Airways Board, [1982] QB 1004; Parker discovered a bracelet on the floor of the British Airways executive lounge; when British Airways sold the bracelet, Parker sued and won.