In 1974, when I started working with the material that became ‘Horses,’ a lot of our great voices had died. We’d lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. – Patti Smith
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. – Marlo Thomas
Indonesia was colonized for 350 years. We lost our mind-set for entrepreneurship. We only become workers. – Ciputra
‘Peter Pan’ is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom. – Edward Kitsis
9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since. – Mark Boal
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. – George Bernard Shaw
The year that ‘Lost’ started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that. – Damon Lindelof
We’ve got to protect the nursery schools. I’m chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I’d be worried about the socialising skills of children. – Colin Salmon
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah. – Neil Marshall
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation – not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn’t. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody – editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan – can be a contributor. – Nick Denton
When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive. – Douglas Conant
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. – Douglas Coupland
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they’ve lost due to Napster. – Dave Rowntree
It’s not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It’s that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They’ll go down in the same order. – Douglas Rushkoff
Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you… and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it’s pretty easy to get emotional about it. – Ellen DeGeneres
If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia. – Dave Grohl
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will. – Elias Hicks
There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn’t that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I’d want to do the song. – George Jones
Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man’s land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor. – C. Thomas Howell
After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values. – Matt Bevin
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters. – Ezra Taft Benson
One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup – and I lost every dollar. – Peter Thiel
If you have a relative who’s lost interest in everything and doesn’t get out of bed, who doesn’t care for things they used to, can’t imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don’t fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that’s right for you, or talk therapy, or something. – Dick Cavett
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn’t know who I was; I didn’t know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That’s when I went on the search for my birth family. – Faith Hill
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition. – Marilyn Hacker
