Missed Quotes

1177 quotes by 964 authors

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had… — Neil Armstrong
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes… — Eric Bana
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity… — James M. Barrie
I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight… — Ezra Taft Benson
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying. — Sara Blakely
I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being… — Orlando Bloom
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then… — Sandra Bullock
I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase. — Sandra Bullock
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. — Maria Callas
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. — Graydon Carter
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day… — Kate Chopin
We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match… — Brian Clough
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head.… — Gillian Anderson
We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof.… — Richard Branson
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to… — Samuel Johnson
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. — Don Adams
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not… — Edward McKendree Bounds
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off… — Charles Spurgeon

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