Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall. – Eleanor Clift
How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it’s in the hundreds – maybe even close to being in the thousands – for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. – Mel Torme
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. ‘Lolita’ is that book for me. Nabokov’s love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring. – Marisha Pessl
I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance. – Derek Kilmer
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. – Guy Davenport
Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost. – Denis Leary
Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, ‘Has he lost his mind?’ – Marla Gibbs
Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you’re feeding on people’s energy. – Fred Durst
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. – Fernando Pessoa
I don’t want to steal anybody’s story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story. – David Levithan
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. – Ernest Renan
The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment. – Peter Eisenman
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. – Edward Thorndike
A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it’s nothing like if Elvis would’ve done something like that, ’cause he’s so popular, or maybe The Beatles ’cause they stirred up a lot of action. – Mickey Gilley
‘Beyond the Lights’ was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I’m excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of ‘What’s next?’ – Gina Prince-Bythewood
I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone. – Gabriela Sabatini
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks. – Doc Hastings
The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs. – Mathias Rust
‘Lost’ seems to be the inverse of ‘Air’: It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart. – G. Willow Wilson
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. – Frank Shorter
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama’s extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama. – David Limbaugh
