Famous Quotes & Sayings

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Nastassja Kinski

Something very important is missing from my life: consistency.

There was just some missing paperwork that had not been done. That has since been clarified. I know this makes everyone look bad.

Janet Fitch

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

Euripides

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Moby

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

Mike Richter

I remember what Ron Greschner said when he retired. 'The thing I'm going to miss most is showering with 23 guys.' And that's what it's all about: camaraderie.

Harry Styles

I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

Frank Zappa

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Herbert

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

Frank Herbert

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

George Harrison

Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

Knute Rockne

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

Katherine Parkinson

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in Annie, is as funny as it gets.

Katherine Parkinson

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

Katherine Paterson

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.

Kate DiCamillo

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

Karisma Kapoor

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

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.