Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garth Ennis

I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

Christopher Hitchens

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

Christina Aguilera

You’ve got me feeling like you’re that something I’ve been missing.

Gerard Way

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

Hayao Miyazaki

When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.

Georgette Heyer

Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!

Herman Kahn

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Jim Beaver

I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

Jesse Jackson

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Jennifer McMahon

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

Christopher Hitchens

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

Christopher Hitchens

The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets.

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.

Jilly Cooper

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Jillian Michaels

If you focus on all the things that could go wrong, you miss the things that could go right.

Jessica Cutler

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

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.

Horace Walpole

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

Jay Asher

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

Garry Winogrand

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

Gail Porter

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

Fernando Pessoa

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

Fannie Flagg

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

Eugene Ormandy

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

Stephen Larkham

It's disappointing on a number of fronts, missing out on the rest of the test season,