Lost Quotes

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

~ Gerhard Richter

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

~ Rick Perlstein

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

~ Bonnie Tyler

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

~ Mitch Hedberg

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

~ Richard Nelson Bolles

Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.

~ Richard Corliss

Sometimes I get a little exhausted by shows or movies that are constantly throwing famous people on. And I find it so much more exciting to not have that when I'm watching something. I think it allows you to get more lost in something and also to bring more attention to more unknown or less recognizable people.

~ Tig Notaro

I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

~ Tom Scholz

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

~ Albert Schweitzer

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

~ Marcel Proust

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

~ Mark Russell

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

~ Charles Vest

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

~ Russell Baker

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

~ Elizabeth Blackburn

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

~ Les Dawson

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

~ Paul Lynde

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

~ Vance Havner

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

~ Sherwin B. Nuland

It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.

~ Kirsten Dunst

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

~ Jill Scott

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

~ Stephan Jenkins

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

~ Russell M. Nelson

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

~ Margaret Mead

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

~ Ira Sachs

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

~ Rabbit Maranville

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

~ H. Jackson Brown

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

~ Josh Billings

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

~ Sophocles

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

~ John O. Brennan

The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.

~ Nick Denton

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

~ Tom Vilsack

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

~ Helmut Jahn

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

~ Mario Botta

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

~ Theodor Mommsen

Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.

~ Eric Massa

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

~ Confucius

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

~ Jonathan Maberry

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

~ Confucius

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

~ Daniel Tammet