I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.
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Related When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get... JASON DAY As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lo... GORAN IVANISEVIC I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost. A.A. MILNE I saw where Georgia was crying like crazy because they lost their starter. Are you kidding me? I'd b... TOMMY WEST Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get l... RAINBOW ROWELL No matter where the road may take me, I know for sure that music is always there for me. And even if... MYRAMUSIC We lost a great teammate. But I was also excited because the guys coming in can help us get to where... DWYANE WADE ... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. MARK HADDON Because I am lost," she whispered onto the earth. "And I do not know the way. SARAH J. MAAS I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there an... MARLON ANDERSON I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jenni... MISSY ELLIOTT I know where I come from, but what I want to know is, where am I going? ANTHONY T. HINCKS I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish. MICHAEL JORDAN You're never lost because you carry YOU where ever you go. ROXE Lost serie are full of depression I think or there is some kind of like this... I don't know up to w... DEYTH BANGER I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph thes... JAMES LEE BURKE Extra ... I lost everything. I didn't just lose one thing. I left my house ... with $8.38 to my name... TOM SIZEMORE I missed Lost - when and where can I see it repeated? ALEX WRIGHT I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ... ANDREW YOUNG We all have to get our hope from somewhere, and if getting lost between the pages of a deep book giv... EMMA HART I haven't lost my mind, I know exactly where I left it. UNKNOWN Tuesday I went, and I lost $279. I went Wednesday and lost $300. I might go today. JUNE WILLIAMS I am not going to lie about it because I have never lost in my life, MAKOSI MUSAMBASI . . . I could't get lost in the story, not the way you need to be, to become somebody else. KAMI GARCIA & MARGARET STOHL A lot of people don't have transportation or cars. I know people who lost their jobs because they di... DORIS TAYLOR For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost. CHARLES PERRAULT I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost withou... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I lov... JULIA STILES The first set was a bit tough because I hadn't played a match for six months. You are unable to deci... MARAT SAFIN turned off the BlackBerry before James could text back. I might hate electronic wizardry, but it was... BARBARA DELINSKY Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also ... JENNA FISCHER I felt I lost my grip in the last three turns. That's where I lost the speed. BODE MILLER Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I got a call on my way to practice this morning, and it took me about 4 hours to get here because I ... DONALD MACLEAN I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ... JEFFREY SKOLL I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city o... FRANK BLACK You need breaks sometimes - we haven't been getting many. I didn't think I would get it. I was upset... MOISES ALOU I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is ... TED BELL You have no idea of what you are doing to me,” he warned. She smiled. “Are you trying to fr... AMANDA QUICK You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What ar... TITE KUBO For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost ... SUSAN HILL I'm a movie guy - I can get lost in anything. CHASKE SPENCER I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far awa... JESSICA WARMAN I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better ... LUKE HUDSON I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation. CYRILLE AIMEE First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. MARIA CALLAS The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card ... KAREN EVANS I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me. LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK You have to hit like 10 winners before you get a point because she gets every single ball back. When... DANIELA HANTUCHOVA I know what you're doing, though." "I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I see... GRACE BURROWES It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, t... JULIA STILES If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where... JAROD KINTZ I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a... BROCK LESNAR With so much going on right now, this week I just want to see where I'm at and where I can possibly ... COURTNEY CLARK I don't care who it is, I don't like to see that ever. Because it means we're walking off the field ... DARIN ERSTAD I lost the puck. Somehow I got it back and was able to get it in. Sometimes you just get lucky. JARKKO RUUTU When God is my way, I never get lost. NICK CATRICALA What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burni... KIRK CAMERON You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. YOGI BERRA You have to get over (losing). When I lost I had to come back. MATT DUNN I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said ... LOU BROCK I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - th... CAROL ANSHAW I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know m... ORI GERSHT Jesus?" he whispered as his voice choked "I feel so lost" A hand reached out and squeezed... WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden a... DAVID BOWIE I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where th... ALEX TURNER We lost a close game last night because we didn't get enough offense. I thought we could get some mo... DEREK DOUGAN Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are... LEWIS CARROLL I just want you to know, you lost me. You lost a beautiful soul. HENANNIE ZARAGOZA Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on whe... LEWIS CARROLL In most companies, you don't get too much mail where people are saying, 'Hey, we lost this account.'... BILL GATES Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life. SORIN CERIN Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so mu... ALLEN KLEIN I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these an... JAMES LEE BURKE If the female offender of these two possibly lost a child to a miscarriage, that might be a motive. ... BEN ESPEY I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noo... SARA TEASDALE You lost your son, but reality he is alive, my father I lost him I know on 99% he is dead if this is... DEYTH BANGER I think his goal is to see if there's any way to help people who lost everything. KRIS WARTELLE Pitching for Sacramento last year I threw a pitch and, on the follow-through, I hit my elbow and los... BILLY SYLVESTER I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in... JIMMY CARR I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag... DAVID CASSIDY When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at i... JOHN CARMACK I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know... JUAN WILLIAMS
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Death translates us all into earth.” H... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Here’s something I bet you don’t know: every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new... CATHERYNNE M VALENTE Your Eve was wise, John. She knew that Paradise would make her mad, if she were to live forever with... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew unti... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for y... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cann... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometime... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incr... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They'... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story? SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widow... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girl... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I am not a toy, September! Fairyland cannot just cast me aside when it’s finished playing with me!... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE IN THE REFRIGERATOR MONOLOGUES Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked an... BENITA VALENTE Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back. BENITA VALENTE Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as lon... BENITA VALENTE We're Kansas and the other side is Oz. People think no one lives here. But this is a really active n... LYNN VALENTE I want to come out of my house and see kids and people enjoying themselves. I grew up in the Marina.... LYNN VALENTE We want a vibrant neighborhood. We want to activate this big, scary empty space. LYNN VALENTE That's part of farming; you just have to deal with what you have. Every year is different. JOE VALENTE He asked to borrow my (cell) phone. When he handed it back, it was full of blood. JOE VALENTE I am a diamond But people see me as gold Honestly, I wanna be silver M -I would die for you -You lie -If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t... M Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana? M. COCHET M. I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. M. M. COADY I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me. M. WARD It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When ... M. WARD I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams. M. WARD When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out i... M. WARD I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to ... M. WARD I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal mean... M. WARD I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearin... M. WARD I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that ba... M. WARD I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck... M. WARD The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world. M. WARD I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough... M. WARD I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make ex... M. WARD I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around ... M. WARD I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably ... M. WARD It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard. M. WARD Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed. M. WARD I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from arti... M. WARD I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to tw... M. WARD