Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.
As a person who has lived through my parents’ divorce, I don’t feel lesser or that I’ve missed out. I didn’t become an adult and think: ‘My family really messed me up.’
I just wanted to have fun for myself – I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.
Our failed population-centric approach to Afghanistan has only led to missed opportunities, which is why Afghanistan depends on donors for 90% of government revenues. A smarter, trade-centric approach will boost Afghanistan’s long-run viability by weaning it off donor welfare dependency.
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn’t being applauded when you arrive – for that is common – but being missed when you leave.
I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read ‘Swallows and Amazons’ to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome’s books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to ‘Treasure Island,’ ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘Coral Island.’
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don’t miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
For ‘Prom,’ if I had missed high school, I don’t think it would come off as real.
As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV – I never missed ‘Dukes of Hazzard,’ not once. It was me and my dad’s show.
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 was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.
I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a ‘Brahmotsavam’ or an ‘Autonagar Surya’, I feel bad for a day, and that’s all. I don’t want to name the films I have missed, but it’s true that those which I missed didn’t do well.
I am a huge fan of Shah Rukh Khan; I have not missed any of his films since I got hooked to ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.’
I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.
I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
My father worked very hard and he never missed a day of work, no matter how sick he was.
Ranveer was almost three when I began my second stint. I took up TV assignments so that I could have enough time at home. While being 24/7 with my child was amazing and his company stimulating, I missed adult conversations.
I missed big free throws. I had terrible shooting nights. I had games where I had 13 turnovers.
Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would’ve been a good basketball player, one of those grinders getting eight to 10 rebounds. I would’ve been like Kobe and been in the gym five to seven hours a day and never missed a 10-foot jump shot. I would’ve been a great role player for a team.
A landline is an anchor – busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
Haven’t a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn’t have another chance at it? So we give up early.
If I’m jetlagging, and I’ve missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you’re supposed to cry, I’ll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I’ll cry.
It’s hard, and I don’t always get to see my kids. I will never catch up on that time I’ve missed.
I don’t think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name.
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force – never be satisfied with what I’ve done.
A lot of people don’t think they can count on me, but I’ve never missed a gig in my life.
I missed out on the crash course that everyone else gets on ‘Strictly’ on every dance form.
One thing the fans got to understand is that I missed two years, and we took it really, really slow, and we made sure everything was good, and my foot has been great.
I have great memories of the old Times Square – wouldn’t have missed being here to see that place for the world – but I can also deal with the new Times Square in the overall scheme of N.Y. City 2010.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
I loved my time doing ‘Private Practice’ in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.
I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn’t nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.
I didn’t rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
With the 24-second clock, they throw up the shot so fast you don’t see plays worked very often. With the extra six seconds, you can regroup after a missed shot and work another play. It would put more coaching in the game.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Because my dad was often gone, I never wanted to do anything that would make him stay away even longer. I became extra careful about what I said and how I said it, afraid he’d think I was angry or didn’t love him. And the truth is, I was angry. I missed him and wanted him there.
The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.
There were times I wouldn’t leave my room for weeks and sometimes missed school because I hated how people would look at me. But my older sister helped me find the positive: She used to show me pictures of Alek Wek to say, ‘See! You can be a model if you want!’
People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
One Missed Call,’ it was regarded as a mainstream film for my career because it was big budget and filmed in Japan and it really opened wide in Japan, it did really well commercially. So I was really surprised.
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
Even if I do miss a shot, I found something to keep me calm and not get myself rattled. Once I missed one, I’d tense up and I’d miss the next one, too. So I found a peace within myself.
If I worried about things I have missed, it would lead to depression.
I was really, really shy. My dad used to drive me for an hour and a half to go training. I used to finish school, jump in the car, come back, and go to bed. I missed out on socialising with my friends when I was a shy child anyway.
I’d love a racing career, but as I didn’t start until I was 28 I missed years of experience.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
I almost missed the chance to join Barcelona because I was on holiday in Mali visiting my parents’ family for the first time. We spent all summer there and every day Barcelona were calling my mother’s phone and getting no reply because she had left it in Barcelona.
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn’t hear or see coming.
The phone will always ring. If I leave it even for a moment and go some where, by the time I come back there will be at least 50 missed calls. I will then get confused as to who to call and who not to, so it’s simpler to live with out a cellphone.
During a performance of ‘Blood Brothers’ in 1990, I forgot to sing. I was so moved by what my co-star Kiki Dee was doing, that I completely missed my cue.
On a flight, I saw the ‘Chashme Buddoor’ remake. It did nothing to me. It had no impact. Watching the remake, I missed the original team even more.
I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn’t miss love, that’s for sure. My dad wasn’t there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people of all races, ethnicities, and orientations understand that no matter what differences we may think we have, everyone is a human, and everyone deserves to be respected and valued.
