Top 484 Missing Quotes

Whatever’s missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you’re not bringing to it.
Nadine Velazquez
For me, I think that there’s a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis is made, I feel that care drops off tremendously, even though it is precisely the time that a patient needs help the most, even if they are not verbalizing it.
Susannah Cahalan
In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger’s where it’s like you’re missing the imitation, socialization gene.
Peter Thiel
I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.
Bo Gritz
I was always listening to the records that made shredding sound fun – Steve Vai, Satriani, Cacophony, Paul Gilbert. I think that’s what’s missing from modern shred guitar; so many people are playing so many amazing notes, but a lot of it doesn’t really sound all that fun.
Nita Strauss
In the business world, if you’re not looking ahead, you’re missing something.
Jared Polis
I’m not patient at all. I avoid writer’s block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I’ve gotten to the next scene, I’ll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.
Anders Holm
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
John Barrymore
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn’t ready.
Matt Mullenweg
Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don’t often notice that they’re thugs, usually because they’re also idiots.
Robert Webb
Both ‘Saturday Church’ and ‘Pose’ are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.
Indya Moore
As long as I really stay on top of my school work, which I’m for the most part able to do, it’s really no problem, me missing school.
Mary Cain
I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.
Gillian Flynn
Nineteen ninety-five, when I was still with Jordan, was the lowest moment. It was my third season and the travel was getting to me and I was missing my family. I felt under a lot of pressure and even thought of going to America – to race there.
Rubens Barrichello
When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there’s no hiding it. It’s like you’ve had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you’re missing an arm?
Alec Baldwin
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.
Robert Kurson
I have accused L.B. Management of failing to report to me, and I’ve told L.B. Management the money is missing, and it could very well be embezzled.
Jeff Greene
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
Meryl Streep
The Globe is a missing monument. There’s no existing example of a theater from Shakespeare’s time. You have Roman theaters, Greek theaters, all kinds of theaters, but none in which the plays of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Marlowe were performed. Scholars feel that it would be of immense value to have one.
Sam Wanamaker
‘The Missing Picture’ is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said ‘I’ in a film, so it is very personal.
Rithy Panh
When I was about nine, I was rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Like any child, I was more concerned about missing out on having fun with my friends than my health.
Dervla Kirwan
That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I’m missing something important at my daughter’s school which makes me feel sick inside. It’s a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.
Reese Witherspoon
I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
Bernardo Bertolucci
If women’s choices – such as taking time off to rear children – make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys’ behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?
Sendhil Mullainathan
Our job as vets and role players is when you get your opportunity make the coach realize what he’s missing out there.
Jared Dudley
My wife, she likes to have things uncluttered, and if s

My wife, she likes to have things uncluttered, and if something is missing, then one has to be very careful not to ask her if it was thrown out – you have to ask her simply where it might be.
Kyle Chandler
When we look at countries that suppress women’s rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.
Lynda Carter
It’s what’s missing, I think, from most music – the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.
Glenn Danzig
There’s plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it’s all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What’s missing is some ‘tude.
Jeffrey Kluger
I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.
Channing Tatum
A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When you go into a game, and there’s something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it’s something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.
Patrick Mahomes
I was in a bad shape after missing out on my army dream. What I couldn’t say and express to everybody, stage gave me the space to release.
Jaideep Ahlawat
I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
Sushant Singh Rajput
I know what I’m missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I’m nervous.
Anna Netrebko
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don’t really think about it that much. It’s like that girlfriend you don’t want to have anymore. You don’t think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don’t.
Danica Patrick
My whole life, I’ve wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.
David Duchovny
I’m missing an index finger.
Jason Pierre-Paul
Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
Ian Hart
Mark Haddon’s ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ was published while I was trying to work out how to write ‘Elizabeth Is Missing,’ and reading the story of that impaired amateur detective gave me the licence I needed to attempt one of my own.
Emma Healey
Football is a fickle game – if I do get the jeers and the boos I’m just going to take it as them missing me playing down there because I miss Southampton. I miss the fans and I miss the good times we had down there. Of course I do.
Adam Lallana
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing.
John Mayer
I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
Bono
I don’t know why people think I’m polished – I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.
Barry Trotz
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa
‘The Leftovers’ takes place three years after 2% of the population has gone missing. And it’s about how that changes society. Cults form as a result, and it drastically changes home life for a lot of people, including the Garvey family, which is the family I belong to.
Margaret Qualley
I am missing the process, shoots, audience, applause from them, my co-stars and everything related to ‘TKSS.’
Kiku Sharda
There’s two facets of this game. You know, if I’m not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I’m missing shots or making shots, it doesn’t affect my overall game.
Rasheed Wallace
I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.
Francisco Costa
Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.
Jillian Michaels
If you’re an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you’re missing other components. Similarly, if you’re trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you’re not going to grow and develop so fast.
Aimee Mullins