Missing Quotes
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
Ernest Hemingway -
There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.
Kathy Whitworth
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I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.
Eve Babitz -
I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.
Darren McFadden -
McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
Jerry Coleman -
I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.
William Eckhardt -
I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
Carrie Fisher -
I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
Alyson Noel
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You don't miss your water 'Till your well runs dry.
William Bell -
Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.
Terry Kath -
Without music in a horror there is actually such a big part missing.
Daniel Stamm -
Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone [in the business] and they'd have a little history of music. Some people in the companies now don't even like music. It's just a job. So I miss the days when someone would go out on a limb and pick a band that was different. I just don't see that anymore. It's the same with the film industry.
David Vanian -
My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
Roger Federer -
The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.
Tony Hillerman
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I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.
Bernadette Roberts -
If you think you know it all, you are missing something.
Thomas Dewar -
Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.
Brahmananda Saraswati -
You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Michael Crichton -
I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.
Catherine Crier -
Healthy things grow, and growing things change. If we allow fear or doubt or shame or insecurity to hold us back from something new God is calling us to do, we may miss out on his greatest purpose for our life. As believers, we go from strength to strength, from glory to glory. And in order to keep expanding God's kingdom, we have to keep growing and trying new things.
Christine Caine
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
William Arthur Ward -
What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.
Svetlana Alexievich -
I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.
Howard Stern -
God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.
Annie Oakley