Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Hopkins

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

Stephen King

For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Spike Milligan

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

Simon Cowell

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

Sigmund Freud

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

Shirley Hazzard

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

Shirley MacLaine

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

Shawn Achor

As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

Sergio Aragones

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Susan Jeffers

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

Sun Tzu

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

Sue Kelly

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

Sue Monk Kidd

Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

Robert Browning

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

Robbie Lawler

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

Robbie Lawler

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers.

Richard Hell

There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.

Richard Adams

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.

Richard Attias

The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the Life we lost in living?

Sylvia Earle

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

Susan Sontag

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

Joss Whedon

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

Ramana Maharshi

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

Ralph Ellison

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Lenny Kravitz

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

Thom Yorke

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

Simone Elkeles

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

Simone de Beauvoir

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.