Missed Quotes

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

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. And I regret that.

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 from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

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 brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.