I began visiting Lima’s prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, ‘Lost City Radio,’ was published in Peru. – Daniel Alarcon
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? – Epictetus
After I lost the first set, I was like, ‘OK, I need to get help because I can’t play this way.’ – Mary Pierce
After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times. – Patrick deWitt
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can’t remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is – I lost it when I was twenty-one. – Cynthia Voigt
I felt that The Who had ended because we’d lost touch with our original Shepherd’s Bush audience. – Pete Townshend
We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways. – Pauline Hanson
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. – Margaret Cavendish
I couldn’t have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession! – Mark Goddard
When I was 8 years old, I saw ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy. – Dwayne Johnson
I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it’s saturated – it’s not good. – Debra Winger
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: ‘Be comforted, you and they shall live again.’ – Frank Tipler
I have a responsibility, and it’s something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would. – Nicole Richie
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. – Elbert Hubbard
I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations. – Cliff Stearns
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation. – Etgar Keret
In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. – Erma Bombeck
‘Discipleship’ as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I’ve tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode. – Dallas Willard
Every time something happens, whether I’ve won the most or lost the most, there’s always ‘oldest’ tied to it. It’s not a surprise anymore. – Daniel Nestor
My most embarrassing moment was when I was a student at Tufts University and decided to go ‘streaking’ with a group of girls in the middle of January. Somehow I lost them and ended up being chased by the campus police. – Meredith Vieira
There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn’t have that religious core – that base to turn to – I would be truly lost. – Moira Kelly
There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I’d lost my birth certificate. – Michael Gough
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories. – George Carlin
TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet. – David Walliams
I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. – Emily Carr
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. – Noam Chomsky
