Missed Quotes

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

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Sky
  • Mark
  • Missed

• Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Legacy
  • Missed
  • New Years

• Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Me
  • Television
  • Example

• I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Praying
  • Vehicle

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

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Missed

• 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 without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Just
  • Missed
  • Sydney

• I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Air
  • Missed
  • Swing

• I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Hills
  • Missed
  • Countryside

• I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Singing
  • Missed
  • Nightclub

• I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Desire
  • Goal
  • Missed

• I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Home
  • Working
  • Week

• He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • You
  • Sea
  • Fish

• I can't think of many bands that can do that for five years without egos blowing up, but it's still working. We went about a year without seeing them (while touring with Cheap Trick), and we really missed them.

  

  Neal Doughty REO Speedwagon
  • Bands
  • Missed
  • Egos

• We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Band
  • Making Music
  • Love Of Music

• In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life is
  • Treasure
  • Missed

• I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Team
  • Focus

• Vince missed a left-handed lay-in and all of a sudden we looked like a team that didn't have confidence. I'm really, really disappointed that we broke down defensively.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Confidence
  • Defensively
  • Vince

• The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.

  

  Bono U2
  • Happened
  • Missed
  • My Dog

• Because I missed being with Prince on that stadium, and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Friends
  • Missed
  • Stadium

• My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • She
  • Today

• I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Child
  • Brother
  • Friendship

• What is interesting in Washington, D.C., is I've never missed a vote. The veterans' committee keeps track of hearings, and I've never missed a hearing or a vote on the VA committee.

  

  Mike Coffman
  • Hearing
  • Veterans
  • Committee

• Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Cry
  • Missed
  • Associations

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