Miss Quotes - page 5

No caparisons, miss, if you please Caparisons don't become a young woman. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, "This is going to run for five years." View quote
William Hartnell
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. View quote
Francis Bacon
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy. View quote
Douglas Adams
There's only us, there's only this / Forget regret, or life is yours to miss / No other road, no other way / No day but today! View quote
Jonathan Larson
This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke. View quote
Mordecai Richler
Never miss a good chance to shut up. View quote
Will Rogers
In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune-what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate. (Susanne Langer)
It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity. View quote
Yoshijirō Umezu
Don't you miss the days when America was just morally bankrupt? View quote
Bill Maher
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. View quote
William Arthur Ward
It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it. View quote
Jesse Owens
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. View quote
Donna Rice
After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did. View quote
Sarah Dessen
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo. View quote
Eminem
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. View quote
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity. View quote
Shunroku Hata
Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most. (Mark Twain)
I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now. View quote
Rachel Trachtenburg
Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss. View quote
Rob Thomas
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. View quote
Vladimir Putin
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. View quote
William Feather