Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Khalil Gibran

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

Naomie Harris

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

Norman Maclean

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Oliver Stone

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

Merle Haggard

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Mason Cooley

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

Mary Alice

We are all searching for someone, that special person, who will provide what's missing in our lives -- One who can offer companionship, assistance or security. And sometimes when we can search very hard who can provide us with all three. Yes, we are all searching for someone. And if we can't find them we can only pray they find us.

Michael Connelly

I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.

Michelle Williams

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Ted Turner

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

Mandy Patinkin

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

Louise Bourgeois

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

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.

Ralph Bakshi

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Rajneesh

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

Michael Vaughan

The thing about India is that while they will miss Sachin, they have the ability to put out another batsman nearly as good.

Michael Pollan

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

Neil Diamond

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

Neil Gaiman

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

John Romero

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

John Steinbeck

life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it

John Scalzi

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Mark Strand

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

Michael Scott

First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Look, there’s nothing I’m ever going to tell you about me that’s the truth. The more you know about me, the shorter your life span is going to be. All you need to know is that I don’t miss. In fact, you don’t even need to know exactly how good I really am, because if you ever find out, you’re going to be dead. (Steele)

Theodore Roosevelt

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.