Albatross Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

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, you no longer have an… — Stephen Stills
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able… — Seamus Heaney
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States… — Alexander Agassiz
Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S.… — Paul Bartsch
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 in… — 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, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy… — Jessica Brown Findlay
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 what… — Leon Kass
That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good… — Joss Whedon
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 what… — Joss Whedon
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 since… — Martin Amis
It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 Vehicular… — John Green
I'm often asked whether Friends has been an albatross around my neck, or whether people only see me as 'Ross from Friends, but I don't… — David Schwimmer

Who Wrote These Albatross Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 15 Albatross Quotes as follows: