Missing Quotes:

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

- A. Lee Martinez

source: A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.139, Macmillan

topic: Missing, Gone, World

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

- Aaron Spelling

topic: Missing, Division, Stories, Anthology

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

- Abba Eban

source: Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”

topic: Men, Rejection, Missing, Impulsive, Sheer

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

- Abba Eban

topic: Men, Missing, Suffering

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

- Abba Eban

source: Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Palestinian

He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Love You, Missing, I Ll Miss You, I Love You Too

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Men, Missing, Links

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Believe, Cat, Missing, Mri, Orthopedics

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

- Adam Hochschild

topic: Missing, Chance, Notes, Newts

Am I missing an eyebrow?

- Adam Savage

topic: Eyebrows, Missing, Mythbusters

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Men, Evil, Missing

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

- Agatha Christie

topic: Missing, Miss Marple, Realising

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....

- Agatha Christie

topic: Girl, Men, Missing

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Greed, Missing, Curiosity

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

- Aidan Chambers

source: Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Chance, Seize The Opportunity

God didn't miss any of us.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, Missing

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

- Al McGuire

topic: Fighting, Night, Missing

I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.

- Al Yankovic

topic: People, Missing, Decision, Missing A Person

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

- Al-Shafi‘i

topic: Heart, Knowing, Missing, Miss Me

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

- Alain de Botton

topic: People, Missing, Being Weird, Weird People

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Ambition, Love Is, Missing

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

- Alan Arkin

source: "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

topic: Missing, Matter, Where You Are, Missing Out

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Life And Love, Past, Missing

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Thinking, Missing, Example

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

- Alan Hansen

topic: Football, Laughing, Missing

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

- Alan Hansen

topic: Missing You, Worry, Missing

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Football, Missing, Chewing, Adrenaline Rush

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

- Alan Watts

topic: Motivational, Reality, Missing, Live Futures

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

- Alan Watts

topic: Goal, Missing, World, Hurrying, Purposeful Life

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

- Alec Douglas-Home

topic: Missing, Mind, Age, Bifocals

I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by... hair.

- Alex Turner

topic: Hair, People, Missing, Analysing

There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!

- Alex Wyllie

topic: Two, Missing, Training, Excuse You

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Hurt, Heart, Missing

It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Fall, Sky, Missing, Assured

Its okay, Beth.I don't want my life to go back to the way it was before i met you.I thought i had it all,but really i was missing something. feel like a completely different person now.This might sound corny,but i feel like i've been asleep for a long time and you've just woken me up...

- Alexandra Adornetto

source: Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.236, Macmillan

topic: Long, Missing, Might, Beth, Before I Met You

I'm a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Girl, Missing, Meter

He called her a MILF, which must be offensive because Miss Castle called him a thug and sent hit out of the room. Gabe, what is a MILF?”- Bethany

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Thug, Missing, Castles

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

- Alfred Kazin

topic: Missing

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Missing, Details

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Kissing, Missing, Shame

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

- Alice Cary

source: Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

topic: Happiness, Missing, Helping

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Missing Someone, Forever, Missing

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

- Alison McGhee

source: Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.20, Candlewick Press

topic: War, Missing, Want

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

- Ally Carter

topic: Friendship, Missing, Would Be, Bunkers, Siberia

It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

- Alpana Singh

topic: Wine, Ice, Missing

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

source: "Meditations Poetiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

topic: Love, Farewell, Missing, Missing You Love, Missing A Person

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

- Alton Brown

topic: Wine, Years, Missing, Chianti, Burgundy

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

- Alveda King

topic: Opportunity, Missing, African American, Brown Skin

Work hard, learn all you can, and never miss the chance to connect with someone new.

- Amber Naslund

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Missing

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Women, Missing, Titles, Unmarried, Married Women

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Missing, Sound, Titles, Married Women

I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much.

- America Ferrera

topic: Missing, Braces

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ..... Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.

- Amit Ray

topic: Song, Thinking, Missing, Cosmic Rays, Cosmic Energy

I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.

- Amor Towles

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.98, Hachette UK

topic: Blue, Missing, Finishing

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

- Amor Towles

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK

topic: Talking, Missing, Polite

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.

- Amy Lowell

topic: I Miss You, Missing, Going Away, I Missed You, Missed You

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

- Amy Tan

topic: Memories, Missing, Together, Missing Piece

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

- Anais Nin

topic: New York, Animal, Missing, Buoyancy

Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc

- Anamika Mishra

topic: Thinking, Missing, Etc, Whatsapp

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Book, Missing, Moments

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Sex, Writing, Missing

It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.

- Andrei Linde

topic: Missing, Looks, Chance

I'm still missing that little something.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Missing, Littles, Stills

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out

- Andy Roddick

topic: Missing

I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Missing, Trying, Going For It

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Lost Someone, Missed Opportunity

I'm aware of what's missing from my life.

- Ang Lee

topic: Missing

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

- Angela Carter

topic: Respect, Mean, Missing, Nudge, Winking

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

- Angela Cartwright

topic: Missing, Spotlight, Kind

which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me.

- Angela Johnson

source: Angela Johnson (2010). “The First Part Last”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Missing, Looks, Rooms, Miss Me

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

- Angela Kinsey

topic: Thinking, People, Missing

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

- Angie Brown

topic: Thinking, Missing, Singing, Well Rounded, Short Films

Sometimes I miss the old me.

- Ann Aguirre

source: Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.43, Penguin

topic: Missing, Sometimes

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Long, Missing, Soul

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Thanksgiving, Missing, Add

After you have been eating greens for 6 months, you will feel that something is missing unless you have them each day.

- Ann Wigmore

topic: Missing, Each Day, Months

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.

- Anna D. Shapiro

topic: Missing, Machines, Amy

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

- Anna Louise Strong

topic: Color, Years, Missing

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

- Annabel Pitcher

topic: Heart, Missing, Doe

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

- Anne Fadiman

topic: Missing

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Missing, Certainty

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

topic: Thoughtful, Perspective, Missing

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

- Anne Rice

topic: Giving, Missing, Vampire, Lestat, Vampire Lestat

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

topic: Stars, Missing, Looks

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

- Annie Oakley

topic: Men, House, Missing

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

- Antonio Davis

topic: Thinking, Games, Missing, Pickups

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid...

- Ariana Grande

topic: Missing, Everyday, Unsaid

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

- Aristotle

topic: Mean, Missing, Feelings, Nicomachean Ethics

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

- Aristotle

topic: Knowing, Missing, Truth Is

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

- Aristotle

topic: Missing, Wish, Citizens

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

- Arlene J. Chai

source: Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.56, Ballantine Books

topic: Air, Space, Missing

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Ideas, Missing, Conservative, Investigating, Preconceived Ideas

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Men, Missing, Society

I'm very resilient. The only thing I'm missing right now are abs.

- Artie Lange

topic: Missing, Resilient

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

- Aryn Kyle

source: Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Missing, Gone

Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

- Ashley Scott

topic: Missing, South Carolina, Different, Thunderstorm

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

- Astrid Lindgren

topic: Children, People, Missing, Madly In Love, Love My Children

Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.

- Atul Gawande

topic: Hands, Missing, Trying, Checklists

The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Love You, Creativity, Missing, Lovers And Friends, Surpassing

Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?

- Audrey Niffenegger

topic: Missing, Way, Minutes

Unless we practice loving feelings toward everyone we meet, day in, day out, we're missing out on the most joyous part of life. If we can actually open our hearts, there's no difficulty in being happy.

- Ayya Khema

topic: Heart, Practice, Missing

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

- Aziz Ansari

source: "Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

topic: New York, Missing, Burgers

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

- B. B. King

source: "Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 10, 2004.

topic: Missing

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Missing, Bliss, Lows, Inspiring Yoga, Aim High

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

- Babe Ruth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Swings, Missing, Yankees Baseball, Great Baseball

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

- Banana Yoshimoto

topic: Mean, Fate, Missing

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

- Banana Yoshimoto

topic: Long, Missing, Ordinary, Ordinary Days, Ambiance

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

- Barbara Brown Taylor

topic: Wise, Spiritual, Missing, Lengthy

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

- Barbara Bush

topic: White, House, Missing

Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things!

- Barbara Johnson

topic: Missing, One Day, Bunnies

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Missing, Pieces, Persons, Missing Piece

Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.

- Barbara Pym

topic: Hurt, Night, Missing, Landslides, Teapots

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

- Barbara Stanwyck

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Names, Missing

I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

- Barbara Windsor

source: "EastEnders' Barbara Windsor tearful as she films final scenes on soap", www.mirror.co.uk. July 17, 2010.

topic: Home, Missing, Want, Changed My Life, Will Miss You

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

- Baron de Montesquieu

topic: Freedom, Missing, Liberty

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

- Barry Humphries

topic: Laughing, Missing, Laugh At Yourself, Plastic Surgery

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

- Barry Manilow

source: "Barry Manilow On Singing Standards And His Real Job". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Albums

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.

- Barry Manilow

topic: Song, Missing, Noses

I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Brother, Missing, Bliss

I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

- Bellamy Young

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Forever, Missing, Singing

I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.

- Ben Crenshaw

topic: Golf, Missing, Secret

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

- Ben Crenshaw

topic: Feet, Missing, Balls

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Missing, One Day, Be Good

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

- Ben Jonson

topic: I Miss You, Sweet, Missing, I Missed You, Missed You

Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.

- Ben Stein

topic: Missing, Principles, Pieces

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

- Benicio Del Toro

source: Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Missing, Serial Killer

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

- Berkeley Breathed

topic: Art, Wall, Missing

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

- Bernadette Peters

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Missing, Aids, Dear Friend

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us...

- Bernadette Roberts

topic: Lying, Missing, Desire

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dream, Missing, World

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

- Bernhard Langer

topic: Winning, Missing, Important

If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

- Beth Moore

topic: Adventure, Missing, Comfort, Compelled, Greatest Adventure

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

- Bette Davis

topic: Meaningful, Missing, Sailing, Rio

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Creating, Missing, Mastery

At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.

- Bill Kreutzmann

topic: People, Missing, Energy, Yay

You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money.

- Bill Maher

topic: Lunch, Missing, Watches, Winding Down

I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor.

- Bill Maher

topic: People, Missing, Looks

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Missing, Roger, Hunts, Liverpool Fans, Liverpool Fc

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

- Bill Sienkiewicz

topic: Artist, Missing, Mind, Filled In

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

- Bill Walton

topic: Iran, Missing, Shots

I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!

- Bjork

topic: Missing, Mets

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

- Blanche Lincoln

topic: Dream, Priorities, Missing

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Sports, Missing, Teammate, Camaraderie

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

- Bob Barker

topic: Usa, Missing, Unexpected, Cardinal Rules, Pageant

When it comes to influence, TRUST is often the missing piece.

- Bob Burg

topic: Missing, Pieces, Influence, Missing Piece

All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

- Bob Costas

topic: Nba Championships, Utah, Missing, Blindfolds

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Rocks, Missing, Bygone Days, Troubadours, Missing A Person

I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.

- Bob Harper

source: Source: movieweb.com

topic: Second Chance, Ebb And Flow, Missing

Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

- Bob Porter

topic: Missing, Looks, Like You, Office Space, Space Movie

I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce....I thought he was missing.

- Bob Saget

topic: Missing, Salad, Sauce, Spaghetti Sauce, Newman

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Writing, Political, Missing

And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.

- Bobby Goldsboro

topic: Food, Missing, Honey

When The Phenoix Suns are missing two basketballs, they'll know where to look!

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Basketball, Two, Missing

Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Missing, Curtains, Showers, Motels, Shower Curtains

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

- Bobby Sherman

topic: Missing, Want, Sake

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

- Boman Irani

topic: Thinking, Missing, Scared

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

- Bonnie Blair

topic: Sports, Gun, Missing

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

- Boris Beizer

source: Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

topic: Perfect, Missing, Quality, Testers

It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe.

- Bosley Crowther

topic: Rivers, Missing, Way, Adornment

I never think about missing a free throw. All that goes through my mind when I'm at the line is seeing the ball go through the bottom of the net.

- Brad Daugherty

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Missing, Free Throw

Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

- Brad Warner

source: Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library

topic: Beauty, Practice, Missing

If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

- Brendan Eich

topic: Missing, Needs, Performances, Developers

We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Jesus, Missing, Use

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

- Brent Smith

topic: Missing, Life Is, Failing

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

- Brent Weeks

topic: Boys, Missing, Target

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.

- Bret McKenzie

source: "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

topic: Missing, Family And Friends

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

- Bret Michaels

topic: Missing, Bigs, Plenty

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.

- Brian Andreas

topic: Son, Missing, Proud, Proud Of You

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

- Brian Andreas

topic: Time, Freedom, Missing, Crimes Against Humanity, Appointments

Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

- Brian Barry

topic: Two, Missing, Outcomes, Collective Action

You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest!

- Brian Blade

topic: Beautiful, Play, Missing

The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.

- Brian Koppelman

topic: People, Rejection, Missing, Dispassionate

What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though...

- Brian Molko

topic: Sex, Thinking, Missing

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

- Bridget Moynahan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: New York, Cities, Missing

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

- Brit Marling

topic: Play, Missing, Humanity

The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that, forget the rest.

- Brittany Maynard

source: "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2014.

topic: Emotional, What Matters, Missing, Do You Care

Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.

- Bruce Kovner

source: "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

topic: Missing, Important, Dollars

I definitely miss the rush from wiping out an opponent.

- Bruce Pandolfini

topic: Missing, Wiping Out, Opponents

I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.

- Bruce Pearl

topic: Mistake, Missing, Hook, Dumbasses, I've Made Mistakes

If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.

- Buck Brannaman

topic: Missing, Basics

I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.

- Bunny Yeager

topic: Missing, Pages, Lasts, Missing Her

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or A Tribe Called Quest. I miss albums like those.

- Busta Rhymes

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Squad, People, Missing, Dr Dre, Tribe Called Quest

Miss can I get a second to speak and quietly mention, That I am so into who you are, can I get your attention?

- Busta Rhymes

source: Song: I'll Do It All, Album: The Big Bang, 2006

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Missing

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

- Byron Katie

topic: Real, Miracle, Missing, Katie

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

- Byron Katie

topic: Real, Real Life, Missing

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Joy, Missing, Soul, Great Divorce, Thy Will Be Done

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

- C.J. Sansom

source: C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.92, Penguin

topic: Doors, Missing, Might

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

- Cal Hubbard

topic: Boys, Umpires, Missing

There is always something missing that torments me.

- Camille Claudel

source: Camille Claudel's letter to Auguste Rodin (1886), as quoted on a plaque at 19 Quai de Bourbon in Paris, where Claudel lived and worked from 1899 to 1913,

topic: Missing, Torment

The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Views, Missing, Actresses, Derrida, World View

I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

- Camilo Villegas

topic: Missing, Colombia

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

- Candy Crowley

topic: Mother, Missing, Sitting, Alzheimer

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

- Carl Bernstein

source: "The failures of the press". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

topic: Missing, Quality, News, Felony, Thoroughness

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Teamwork, Mistake, Missing, Kepler, Mendel

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

- Carl Whitaker

topic: Marriage, Wife, Missing

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

- Carlos Slim

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Investing

The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.

- Carlton Mellick III

topic: Race, Missing, Needs

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

- Carly Rae Jepsen

topic: Girl, Thinking, Missing

Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Giving, Missing, Lovely, Hollowness

Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.

- Carolyn Keene

topic: Opposites, Missing, Silence, Dummy, I Wish You Would