#lost

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#financed #financing #get #i #know

It's not that," said Magnus "There are some people - people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #jace-lightwood #magnus-bane #mortal-instruments #beauty

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #america #astride #capitalist #china

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#cats #child #days #end #find

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#greatest #i #lie #like #lost

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#amazing thing #critics #find #lost #me

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. ↗

— Martin Luther

#hands #held #i #lost #many

Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters...on that aspect, no. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#because #brothers #certain #days #definitely

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#jobs #lost #mexicans #mexico #million

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#death #ever #frightened #half #i