Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivy Compton-Burnett

People have never lost what they think they have.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Jack London

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

Susan Egan

Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.

Frank Oz

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Tim Henman

One of us is going to win and one of us is going to lose but it won't be the be-all and end-all.

Cary Fukunaga

One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles.

Obviously we will try to win the match...no matter we have lost the first two matches.

James Arness

It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally.

Maajid Nawaz

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

People have got lots of opinions and when you're losing those opinions come out even more.

Ryan Kalil

Sure, we're losing some important guys, but we're going to be good.

Some of them (the evacuees) are in a little better shape than others. Some of them lost every single thing they had.

David Harris

Some of us lost our houses, so the whole team moved into the school. We're tightly-knit, we're like a family,

(Texas) A&M was probably the second-toughest loss I've ever experienced in my 15 years. That was a tough one.

My thoughts just now are with Graham. He has lost his job, and that was harsh. I feel strongly about that.

Patti Smith

My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.

I think this is going to be a loss for Apple.

I'm sleeping nights, ... I come to work thinking not 'How much are we going to lose by?' but 'If we keep it tight, we can play with them.'

Maybe it made him realize he had to lose weight to get his swing back and to take pressure off his foot.

E. O. Wilson

Man, I think we just got to the point where if we were going to lose, we were going to lose fighting. If you don't like the way it's going, you have to do something about it. We did something about it, we got after them in the second half.

Benjamin Franklin

Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.

Andy Roddick

I'm in a little shock, to be honest. I don't remember a loss like this,

Martin Rees

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

B. F. Skinner

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

(We need) supplies, something to sleep on. We lost everything. We used to live in New Orleans.

We never lost our swagger. When we do what we have to do, nobody can play with us. That's how we feel.

Bill Crawford

Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.

Carrie Fisher

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

Bill Bryson

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Bette Davis

I've lost my faith in science.

Bill Vaughan

Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join.

Bill Vaughan

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.