(3015 quotes found)
“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”
Cyril Connolly
“She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”
Kate Chopin
“Who misses, or who wins the prize?Go, lose and conquer as you can:But if you fail, or if you rise,Be each, pray God, a gentleman.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
J. D. Salinger
“...Because it is too damn hard, I can't even begin to explain to you how much I gonna miss you. When I think about not seeing you everyday, it makes me not want to go.”
Friends
“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”
B. B. King
“Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers”
Tom Lehrer
“I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.”
Rosalind Russell
