Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

Louis Leakey

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

Louis L'Amour

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Lorraine Toussaint

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

Liv Ullmann

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Eugene Ionesco

Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.

Ethel Waters

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

Etty Hillesum

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

In my second game, I started missing spares and the lanes started getting worse for me.

Wandy Rodriguez

I really, really feel good, but I'm missing on my location, my spots.

Cassandra Clare

It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared

Cassandra Clare

I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.

Cassandra Clare

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

Cassandra Clare

Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.

Cassandra Clare

Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.

George Eliot

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

George Eliot

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Fred Armisen

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

George Herbert

He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]

Christine Keeler

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Frances Farmer

I miss the comfort in being sad,

Franklin P. Adams

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

Jerzy Kosinski

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

J. C. Ryle

The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.

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.

Eric Burdon

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

Eoin Colfer

Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I.

Greg Gutfeld

What I'm going to miss is the competition, being, that's OK, I can watch from the house.

Grace Slick

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.