I shot the ALBATROSS.

I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've…

— Irvine Welsh

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the…

— John Green

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

— Anonymous

Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often…

— Desmond Tutu

But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see…

— Leon Kass

The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross…

— Martin Amis

I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama…

— Henry Rollins

The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in…

— Robert A. Heinlein

This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

— Gene Weingarten

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

— John F. Kennedy

Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations…

— Robert Byrd

I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with…

— John Bush

It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know…

— Joss Whedon