Missing Quotes

• When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Violence

• It takes a little more persistence to get up and go the distanceI'm not giving inI'm not missing outI'm not giving up on implausible dreams - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Fear

• I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Picture
  • Missing
  • Photography

• America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • America
  • Culture
  • Dance

• A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping into someone else's family, and there's always going to be something missing if you don't work that out.'

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Work
  • Family
  • Kids

• The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.

  

  Matt Sharp Weezer
  • Pretty
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Life
  • Missing

• The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

  

  David Rudisha
  • World
  • Important
  • Career

• A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • World
  • She
  • Missing

• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Humans
  • Individual
  • Loneliness

• If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Three
  • Others
  • Manipulation

• Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.

  

  David Macinnis Gill
  • Writing
  • Missing

• The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn't just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that's what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that's what people need around the world.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

  

  James F. Amos
  • War
  • Action
  • Memorial

• God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • God
  • Action
  • Missing

• Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Hope
  • Listening
  • Missing

• Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.

  

  Gerry Schwartz
  • Worry
  • Lines
  • Investment

• As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communities. Yes, there's immense talent brewing even within the most impoverished neighborhoods. Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Great
  • High
  • Society

• Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Political
  • Chance

• We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Theory
  • Piece
  • Gravity

• Miss Lynn came around the corner of the row of lockers,glaring daggers. No, daggers would be too delicate a weapon for her.Glaring sledgehammers was probably more appropriate.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Weapons
  • Delicate
  • Lockers

• Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Time
  • Song
  • Missing

• Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time
  • Air
  • Sorry

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