“If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'” IfsThinkingWayTryingYearsFoundLosesLaughingTaughtJokesMouthsDirtyComing Out Author:Demetri Martin
“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.” YearsLongDifferentWould BeTogetherFeltLosesChanceFiveExampleResponsePursueComicEnjoyedFive YearsRejectedUnemployedGood ChanceHobbesComic StripsLong Road Author:Bill Watterson
“Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.” YearsHardBigsLosesEffortEventsHard WorkMonthsTrainingSightSessionMonotonousBig Events Author:Chris Hoy
“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.” IfsThinkingYearsMatterHappensEarthGuyTurnsLosesSpaceMillionsSunTheoryBaseballGiantsCosmicThis GuyBurn OutSnowball Author:Bill Lee
“Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day” YearsMindEnoughThreeLosesLettersThree YearsAlphabetRearrangingLetters Of The Alphabet Author:Richard Price
“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.” GivingShouldYearsMayMadeBookWould BeReadingLosesTenMade ItShelvesExtensions Author:Pam Brown
“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsFirstsCountryGovernmentMightHappensWould BeAgeHeavenLosesGoneHappenedRevolutionThousandSixAngelGainsMercyMiracleConstitutionFilledLipsExpectedOur CountryVoidAccentsThousand YearsDeliberateCautiousRiotDespotismFramedTumultClustersErrandsBe CautiousConsultation Author:Daniel Webster
“When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.” YearsLostParentLosesDadMy DadThank GodVietnam Author:Fred Wilson
“I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.” WayYearsGamesLosesModernFootballCoachesModern LifeElevenFootball Coach Author:Abe Lemons
“It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.” YearsEasyTermLosesAdvicePerspectiveDrugWasteMusicianAlcoholWasting TimeEasy To Get Author:Joe Walsh
“I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."” PeopleYearsFatherLosesHairTeenager Author:Stanley Tucci
“Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.” ShouldYearsLosesChanceVery GoodWorking It Author:Jules Feiffer
“I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.” PeopleYearsMindMadeSaidUseStrongParentLosesDoubtMetsThey SaidTeenageUpbringingBe ConfidentTeenage Years Author:Juliette Lewis
“If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsBelieveCausesLosesCareersPosition Author:Danger Mouse
“The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.” YearsHas BeensTwoFilmArtistLosesIntellectualGlassesMyth Author:Woody Allen