Missing Quotes - page 20

I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go. (Cutter Hodierne)
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. View quote
Cavett Robert
If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point. View quote
Doug TenNapel
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. View quote
James Welch
These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. View quote
Joe Henderson
One missing child is one too many. View quote
John Walsh
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing. View quote
James Kirkwood
If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing. View quote
Larry Smith
From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat. View quote
Michael Mina
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. View quote
Nicolas Roeg
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found. (Paul Engle)
Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” "Stop making up names for him.” "What about Count Crackula?” "Just stop. View quote
Rachel Caine
There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something. View quote
Ricky Williams
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. View quote
Robert Webb
The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life. View quote
Robin Marantz Henig
Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version. View quote
Ron Eglash
In the rest of the world, rich people will give a donation, and businessmen give to charities. But in Mexico, the execution capacity of what we call the social sector is missing. I find it much more effective to set up the actual social organisation and then fund it with my money. View quote
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. View quote
S. Jay Olshansky
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights. View quote
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing. View quote
Stephen Lang
The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase. (Steven Weber)
We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war. View quote
Steven Weber
... there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann. View quote
Suzanne Brockmann
Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result. View quote
Sandra Lee
When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up, and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that. View quote
Scott Adkins