Whit Stillman

When you're trying to force things in a script, it seems like it's getting somewhere, but it isn't real or interesting. All the bad material you've written becomes an albatross around your neck. So I really don't like writing a lot of bad stuff, I prefer to just keep narrowing it down to stuff I think is solid.

American Director

David Cassidy

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.

American Actor

Chris Jordan

If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as they come walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity.

American Artist

Steve Backshall

If I could be any animal I'd probably be a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span. Being able to cover huge distances of sea every single day would be wonderful!

Irvine Welsh

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Scottish Novelist

Jim Nantz

People think I can really play golf, but it's actually been almost an albatross for me. I really struggle not only to break 80, but sometimes to break 90.

American Entertainer

Donna McKechnie

A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.

American Dancer

Tatiana Schlossberg

Over the vast plains of the open ocean, where wave lines may be the only markers, seabirds, including albatrosses, manage to find food.

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 albatross.

American Musician

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

South African Activist

Albatross refers to a specific type of large seabird, not just any bird.

Specific Bird

Albatrosses are associated with marine environments, rarely seen on land.

Marine Habitat

In literature, an albatross can symbolize a wide range of meanings.

Not Always Literal

An albatross symbolizes a large, persistent problem for someone.

Heavy Burden

An albatross can represent emotional, not just physical, weight.

Emotional Weight

The term 'albatross' is often used in idiomatic expressions.

Idiomatic Usage

In golf, 'albatross' is a term for a rare and excellent score.

Golfing Term

Achieving an albatross in golf is very prestigious and desirable.

Positive Achievement

 is the albatross, a bird known for its enormous wingspan and extraordinary soaring abilities. It may seem strange that losing the ability to fly would be an evolutionary advantage, but the penguin's short, flipper-like wings and solid bones allow them to swim faster and dive deeper

The popularity, plight...

 Albatrosses frequently fly six, sometimes ten thousand miles over several weeks to deliver one meal, one big meal, to their chick who is waiting for them. They nest on the most remote islands in the oceans of the world,

What are animals...

 a feeding assembly on this scale is a rare sight most of the times the birds of the open sea are widely dispersed but these feeding grounds are close to an albatross breeding colony and a very

World's Largest...

 For fledging albatross, that's not as simple as you'd think. The problem is the island's runway is a bit short, especially for a bird with one of the world's longest wingspans.

Tiger Shark Attack! PIPE...

 Canyon he said expectation sank into nothingness albatrosses are birds of superlatives they fly like their stunt pilots inhabiting their own bodies and they're

Wings of the Albatross PIPE...

 in fact sometimes the shark gives the albatross the inspiration to fly amazing what knowing you're about to be evil can do for your motivation

Tiger Shark vs....

 after what could be years of courting the albatross mates are finally ready to take their next step in life starting a family

Albatrosses' Life-Long...

 saving a whole population of grey headed albatross if we show the world this is another. So we started to film the chick

Baby Albatross Encounter...

 grey-headed albatrosses are one of the world's most endangered seabirds they inhabit the stormy southern ocean that

Fluffy Chicks are Blown...

 here's a rare sight in Hawaii an adult albatross on land