Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kesey

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

Kim Edwards

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Kerr Smith

I'm going to miss everybody but unfortunately... it's time to go

Ian Kinsler

I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.

Gloria Steinem

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

J. K. Rowling

They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything.

J. K. Rowling

That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

Ivan Lendl

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

H. L. Mencken

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

H. P. Lovecraft

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

Ian Mcewan

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.

Ian Hart

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

Ian Fleming

It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

Horace Walpole

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

I can only think they're trying to play it safe and they've missed an opportunity to redefine themselves on the weekend,

I don't think that there's been anything that's been said as of yet. But, we've been on the road for a while, so I may have missed a meeting.

Gilbert Arenas

I don't want to say that he has regrets. I don't want to put that out there but I'll just say that he misses here.

Alastair Campbell

I don't miss the limos and the jets. I do miss... what do I miss? I do miss Tony.

Hunter S. Thompson

You can't miss what you never had.

Hunter S. Thompson

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

Humphrey Lyttelton

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

Hudson Taylor

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

Harold Prince

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.

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.

Milarepa

Osho returned to India and stayed in Bombay for about three months. It was a transitional time. But Osho, never one to miss a beat, resumed the discourses a few days after arriving back in India.

Milan Kundera

I have no mission. No one has.

Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Jorge Luis Borges

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Kevin Spacey

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Kevin Spacey

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.