Top 484 Missing Quotes

One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well – in a natural, personal way – you can kind of see what’s missing. You can see when you’re bored of something or of someone.

Seeing someone go down, you don’t ever want to see anyone getting carried off on a stretcher or you don’t want to see anyone missing a day or another game.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Playing ‘bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I’d been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

Having a family is really important. And there would be something missing in my life as a woman if I didn’t at least attempt to fulfil that side of me. Just for a certain period of your life, to have your sole purpose to be nurturing, feeding and protecting someone else: it’s animalistic, isn’t it? It’s beautiful.

NAPA has been with me from winning two Daytona 500s, to missing races with a new start-up team, and back to victory lane again. The relationship grew far past that of just a sponsor, but more of a partner and a friend.

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

With any career you’re in, there’s always a life outside of your career, and that’s one thing when you’re on the road 300 days of the year, you start missing your family, you miss your friends, you miss all the things you enjoy in life like going to the movies, museums.

MIA stands for ‘missing in action,’ which is the way others can experience you when you’re too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that’s going on in your head, and, essentially, when you’re too busy being busy.

I can’t remember missing a practice because of illness.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I’m not missing any of those things.

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.

When I first started writing ‘Still Missing,’ I didn’t actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women’s fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

The reason that there is a lapsed fan is because the wrestling that people want to see isn’t out there, and it isn’t just one thing they are missing it is a lot of things that they are missing.

It’s been great to be on television since I was young; I always knew I wanted this. I didn’t even like regular school, so I don’t think I’m missing out on anything.

That irritates me the most – missing tackles.

Since I was 18, I have swum for 50 minutes every day, missing less than one day a year except for a two-week stint when I was training as a cosmonaut in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in March 2009.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that’s missing.

I’m not the only one who has ever lost somebody; I’m not the only one who was missing somebody. That’s what I love about country music, that’s what I love about songwriters, is being able to put out those words, those feelings.

There’s a waterfall of content that you’re missing out on.

He’s sharp, he can score and he doesn’t worry about missing.

Father’s Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother’s death. Maybe it’s me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that’s missing today.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

You didn’t have to tell a girl with no legs that she, you know, I knew I was different. I was missing half of my body. But I really had incredible parents who really taught me that, you know, God has always had a special a plan for me.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I’m home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

I always talk about, like, with end-of-game situations, making and missing big shots, I know I can shoulder that. I can live with having the success of the playoffs and having a huge failure. I know I can deal with it.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor – the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn’t eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat.

I’m not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

I’m aware of what’s missing from my life.

I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I’m your classic American mutt.

You can make that money off the field that you’re missing on the field by doing endorsements with Sleep Number and Nike and Campbell’s Chunky Soup and all the other ones you see Dak doing.

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn’t type any slower.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash – a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.

In ‘Reclaiming Virtue,’ I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is ‘affect.’ Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion.

As Luke 24 shows, it’s possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

Now we’re in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, ‘Hey, you’re missing my value. You’re not recognizing what I’m doing.’

Earning a comfortable living and being responsible with your money is always a good thing. But, if you let that completely control your life, you’re missing out on a lot of incredible experiences that money can’t buy.

The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd – one I still cherish – to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.

FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I’ve been to three World Championships… so I think it’s like a win-win.

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don’t want to watch other cultures.

I don’t have a lot of shame. That doesn’t mean I can’t feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don’t have a lot of guilt, no. I’ve always been this way. I’m missing a chip.

In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there’s a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What’s missing? It’s a stable battery.

It’s very hard to wake up every morning knowing that a part of me is missing; that part of my womanhood is gone.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Because of my age and because there’s more work on the small screen. What it’s missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor’s selfish point of view.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women’s literature.