#lost

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#dealt #fiction #first #green #homosexuality

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#amazing thing #anything #back #could #did

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy. ↗

— David Suzuki

#becoming #continued #conventional #depleted #difficult

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. ↗

— David Suzuki

#beyond #businesses #causing #change #climate

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#often #opportunity

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV. ↗

— John Sweeney

#bbc #been #career #could #end

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#feel #friend #good #good book #know

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself. ↗

— Jodi Sweetin

#basically #figure #hard #how #identified

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#better #burst #good #liquor #lost