Missing Quotes - Page 6

• What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

  Susan George

  Missing You, Thinking, Common

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• Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

  Abe Lemons

  Damn, Referee, Lemons

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• If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good.

  John Wesley

  Opportunity, Light, Shining

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• Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Greatness, Decision

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• The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

  Hal Roach

  Funny, Travel, Numbers

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• Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets.

  Roger Miller

  Guitar, Three, Roger

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• If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.

  John Mayer

  Morning, Coffee, Book

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• If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow
  composed of the helpless and the impotent.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Government, Law, Court

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Jobs, Husband, Believe

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• Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.

  Doug Collins

  Team, Heart, Boston

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• His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.

  William Watson

  Dog, Hate, Believe

  William Watson, “Epigrams”

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• The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.

  Jon Landau

  Long, Littles, Dizzy

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• Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Destiny, Hands, May

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1972). “Transparent things: a novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

  Dan Brown

  Glasses, Blood, Ideas

  "Dan Brown: Veni vidi da Vinci". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2004.

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• In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

  Robert Reed

  Couple, Cutting, Effort

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• What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

  David Mitchell

  Hands, Ideas, Smell

  Interview with Steve Finbow, www.stopsmilingonline.com. June 29, 2007.

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• To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.

  Ian Stewart

  Technology, Ideas, Simplicity

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• I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Husband, Humor

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• I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.

  Joe Walsh

  Real, Writing, Wife

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

  James Corden

  Mistake, People, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.

  Roger Deakins

  Ideas, Together, Watches

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is easy, comedy's hard." I think the broader it gets, if you miss by a millimetre, you've missed completely. It's a very hard thing to do.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Dying, Comedy

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.

  Ray Winstone

  Might, Lenses, Genius

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

  Bryan Cranston

  Giving, Want, Three

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"

  Emily Yoffe

  Past, People, Sometimes

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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