Missed Quotes

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

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.

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.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!