Lost Quotes

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

It's always when you think that you've lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable 'When are you due?'

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.