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More Albatross Quotes

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• The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art — Stephen Stills
• Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are,… — Stephen Stills
• I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the… — Seamus Heaney
• Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted… — Paul Bartsch
• Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake,… — Robert Byrd
• I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life,… — Jessica Brown Findlay
• But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington… — Leon Kass
• That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it,… — Joss Whedon
• Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do,… — Joss Whedon
• The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I… — Martin Amis
• It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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