Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Alfred Kazin

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

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Dorothy Dunnett

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Danny Elfman

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

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.

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.

Harold Prince

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

Harry Styles

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

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.

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 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.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

Richard Petty

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

Warren Cuccurullo

You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

Wayne Gretzky

You miss the ball you do not hit 100%

Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100 percent of the selfies you never make.

Wayne Gretzky

You miss every shot you don't take.

Wayne Dyer

We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.

Walt Whitman

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

Sarah Dessen

But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.

Sarah Dessen

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

Sarah Dessen

After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.

Rod Stewart

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Rod Serling

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

Will Rogers

Never miss a chance to shut up

Zachery Ty Bryan

I don't miss acting at all.

Zig Ziglar

God showed me that He could and would replace everything that was missing in my life, but that nothing could replace Him in my life.