Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kenneth Grahame

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mahatma Gandhi

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

Epicurus

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Emily Giffin

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

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 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.

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.