Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Dickinson

I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

Hattie McDaniel

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had

Henry R. Luce

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Henry Fielding

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

Helen Fielding

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Joan Jett

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

Erik Qualman

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

Eric Liddell

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

Any time you miss a wide-open shot, it throws you a little bit. But you just have to let it go.

She'll make 12 in a row to end practice, right at that basket. I don't think she ever misses two in a row.

Jeff Tedford

He was suspended for the first quarter for missing the meeting,

Jon Stewart

I already miss him. At 42, you don't get the opportunity to be tickled a lot.

Jalen Rose

Coach! You're a rookie and you're going to miss practice already?

A senior shouldn't miss that shot, but I did.

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Giacinto Facchetti

Adriano? Unfortunately he missed a penalty and he was disheartened by this. I only want to talk about those who are here. I will only say that if he is not here it's because he wanted to leave.

Robinson Cano

Everything was right. I just missed it. It's disappointing.

Jim Haslett

Safeties can't miss tackles. He's a young kid, he needs to keep working on that.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

Our shooters are hesitating. If you miss 20, you shoot 20 more. But with them, they miss one and they won't take another shot.

Casper Dien

And we get to yell, 'Save us Miss Baywatch, save us!'

They told us they hadn't seen him . . . and they opened a missing persons report.

They're very confident. We've had professional preparation and haven't missed a thing.

They seemed to make them all, and we seemed to miss them all.

They missed the deadline, they missed their chance.

Claude Julien

They picked us to miss the playoffs two years ago and they were wrong,

You've really risen to the occasion. That's the only mission you had tonight and you did it.

You never miss the water till the well runs dry.

You never know what it's like until you're gone. We just missed everything.