Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Simon

African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

David Perlmutter

Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely.

David Hare

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

Cybill Shepherd

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Dave Eggers

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

David Levithan

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

David Letterman

It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss.

David Einhorn

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

Delmon Young

I've never been one to look at numbers or think about stuff like that. The only numbers I worry about are wins and losses-that's always been my biggest priority.

Debbie Macomber

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Andre Agassi

Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

Anderson Cooper

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Amartya Sen

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Anna Quindlen

Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

Anna Quindlen

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

Amiri Baraka

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Allison Pearson

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Andy Rooney

Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.

Wetland loss was part of the process, but it was always accompanied by wetland gain.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

We made too many mistakes tonight. This loss is disappointing.

I was pleased we picked up after our loss to Hominy, ... We played pretty decent.

If we have Saturday school, our loss will not be substantial.

If they die, it would mean a loss of 2,400 yuan ($296),

Ron Dennis

If they start to pick up points then those people who are subjected to the loss of points will probably be very vocal about it.

We've been operating at a loss there for some time. It's being done to return operations there to profitability.

We had some unfortunate situations. We had some eventful losses that we probably shouldn't have had, a suspension, and on top of that, we had a young team.