Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Ormandy

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

Jennifer Egan

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

Jhumpa Lahiri

And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

Jhumpa Lahiri

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

Goldie Hawn

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Harper Lee

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

Gregory Maguire

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

Ignatius of Antioch

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

He told me he missed it, and I'm going to miss it, too.

He therefore urges all registered voters not to miss this unique opportunity.

He's an idiot. He's selfish. That's why we don't miss him.

He's a nice, nice addition. But we do miss Coach.

George Best

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

George Bernard Shaw

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

Franz Kafka

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Erich Maria Remarque

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Larry Brown

Even in the overtime, ... Eddy missed one and Jamal missed a wide-open jumper ...

Nastassja Kinski

Something very important is missing from my life: consistency.

Southern Miss was very resilient (Wednesday). ... They just gutted it out.

During the 15 missions I headed, no one ever told me what to do.

I've been around long enough to miss a lot of people. You get over it. You get over it and go on.

Ervin Santana

Sometimes I missed my spots, but I think they were waiting for my fastball.

Shawn Marion

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

It was tough on the club, but not as tough as it was on Phil. We missed having him around.

It was a perfect Senior Night. All the seniors played well and contributed. They are a special group, I'm really going to miss them.

Susan Mitchell

These recent seizures demonstrate that our officers are aggressively and effectively pursuing our traditional mission of narcotics interdiction.

The seniors did a lot for the program. I'm going to miss the guys.

The software will tell you if you've missed something, but it's still the responsibility of the parties to recognize that the software has told them that.

Fatos Nano

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,