The Lost Quotes

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

Sarcasm is lost in print.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.

The Pentagon's lost entire countries.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

All over the walls of my room are pictures of Peter Pan. I've read everything that Barrie wrote. I totally identify with Peter Pan, the lost boy from Never Neverland.

The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

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.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Some things were better lost than found.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.