Lost Quotes
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I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.
Dakota Fanning
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost
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Lithuania, my country! You are as good health; How much one should prize you, he only can tell, Who has lost you...
Adam Mickiewicz
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I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.
Janis Ian
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
Anton Chekhov
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There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Duke of Wellington
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The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
Laird Hamilton
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The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.
Lois Lowry
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The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
Marlin Fitzwater
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I haven't lost my head yet.
Andrew Cuomo
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She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.
Rachel Caine
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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
John Podhoretz
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With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.
Chuck Liddell
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I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
James Spader
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We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.
John Tavener
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O proud philanthropist, your hope is vainTo get by giving what you lost by gain.
Ambrose Bierce
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'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.
Lena Headey
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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Anna Freud
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I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
Mark Kurlansky
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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
W Mitchell
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It depends on the way you shoot it. It's something I don't really control. The main goal is to make a funny movie, but then I let my mind go. I get lost sometimes in the writing, trying to find some special zones. That's the excitement of making a movie.
Quentin Dupieux
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It can be said that, until the fifteenth century, Black Africa never lost its civilisation
Cheikh Anta Diop