I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.
Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.
You can win the world, she said, if you’re willing to lose your soul.
When we see too many battlefields, it breaks something inside of a person and they lose the ability to distinguish between cruelty and necessity.
I don't want to dig him or his sexy self. But I keep losing my clothes when I'm with him.
Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.
You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
And then she realized that after that Christmas party, she didn't really lose anything, except respect for everyone.
I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment.
She said she was a loser, and I argued she was a winner. I won the argument, thus losing the argument because my winning made her a loser.
Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose--something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me.
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.
Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.
