Top 50 Misses Quotes

What the media misses is the amount of anger that’s out there. Trump didn’t create that.

Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you’re going down the road. They aren’t as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.

You see far more swings and misses on can’t-miss football recruits than basketball blue chips.

Elektra met Matt, and she fell in love with him. And I think he brought some good out of her at some point in her life, and maybe she wants to figure out, by coming back to him, who she really is. She comes back because she misses him, and she’s alone, and the only person she’s ever loved is Matt.

Talking with economists, climate scientists, and psychologists convinced me that depersonalizing climate change, such that the only answers are systemic, is a mistake of its own. It misses how social change is built on a foundation of individual practice.

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

I don’t believe in getting mad if a guy misses a block and I get hit. I don’t yell at the players. Everybody gets beat sometime.

Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

Here’s the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.

My advice to the next quarterback that misses an entire year is to understand there is a little difference going out on the road again. You miss that. When you’re hurt, you do not feel like you are part of it.

All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

SRK is a gem of a person. He told me that he is a keen viewer of ‘Comedy Nights with Kapil’ and his family records those episodes which he misses during shooting schedules.

When you’re young and you first come onto the scene, you’re fearless. You just go for your shots and don’t really think about the consequences. But as you play on through years and years, you get punished for those misses, and gradually, that leaves scars. It dents your confidence a bit.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it’s just one mistake.

Boys, I’m one of those umpires that misses ’em every once in a while so if it’s close, you’d better hit it.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn’t belong here.

A state school class can only learn as fast as its thickest child. Your kid misses stuff, mine has to wait while yours catches up.

I have a responsibility and a job as a guy who gets paid a lot of money, I’m expected to perform. And 82 games in 6-7 months is a lot, and it’s hard on the body, and you’re not gonna play perfect every night. Even Ray Allen misses shots, even LeBron misses dunks.

I’m good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don’t know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

You’re only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it’s Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I’m not comparing myself to those guys, but you learn more from the misses than the hits.

A great performance never misses its mark.

In retirement, I have enjoyed it… and everyone misses the game, there’s no question, you miss lots of different parts of it.

Ibrahimovic? In my opinion, Ibra is the best striker in Europe. It makes me laugh when people say he misses crucial chances.

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, ‘You became independent really quickly, and I’m so proud of you,’ but she misses me all the same.

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that’s the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can’t stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Traditionally, in the technology industry, companies need to re-invent themselves every 3-7 years to survive. If the company misses one transition, it can still recover, but if it misses two, it is usually fatal.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

That’s how I lived for 10 years in Bristol after graduating. I just stayed in my student flat and paid very little rent. It was lovely, and part of me still misses that very lazy lifestyle. I was known as the magician on the street, and I used to dress a little eccentrically in a cloak.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I’ve had my share.

What people want on a Sunday morning is not to be in the breaking news fray. They want someone to call hits and misses, and to bring context and perspective and to be even-handed.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

When a striker misses a chance, people say he should have scored, but five minutes later, they don’t talk about it anymore.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn’t what this is.

Here’s the truth that everyone misses – you must not invest in a guy based on how much you like him. You have to invest in a guy based on how much he invests in you.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Most of the time a wrestler misses the in-ring action, but because of my back and working with the girls as an agent, I don’t miss it.

I have this internal cultural struggle where there’s a side of me that is very Brazilian that misses the food and culture, and a side of me that’s very American that really loves the structure and predictability here.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren’t listening.

Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me.

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume – there’s a flatness to them.

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I’ve had my share. I was very close and almost cast in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s ‘Capote.’

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn’t work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.