Missed Quotes

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.