Missing Quotes

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Why, Often, Leave

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
Alan Cumming

Good, Here, Seem

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
Kenneth Grahame

Travel, Hopeless, Themselves

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'
Ari Fleischer

Angry, Country, Times

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
Bernhard Langer

Life, Important, Winning

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.
Leigh Steinberg

Football, Team, Whole

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
Alan Hansen

Worry, Score, Sharp

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
Brit Marling

Time, Best, Humanity

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.
Tim Berners Lee

Together, Able, Question

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
Bernardo Bertolucci

Change, Great, Hope

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.
Paul Hawken

Government, Utterly

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
Flavor Flav

Music, Good, Fun

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.
Benicio Del Toro

Bad, Anyone, Might

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
Brendan Fraser

War, Place, Whole

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
John Shadegg

Best, Computers, Fight

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Political, May, Understand

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
Lukas Foss

Important, Him, Why

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
Maggie Q

Time, Thought, Wrong

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
Bill Sienkiewicz

Amazing, Mind, Filled

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'
Todd Phillips

Love, Funny, School

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.
Herb Ritts

Time, Special, Days

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.
Stephen Hunter

Father, Book, Culture

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
Herman Kahn

Human, Moral, Public

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'
Sean Astin

Else, Lord, Holy

Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen.
Drew Brees

Game, Happen, Big

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.
Michael Schenker

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
Betty Hill

Memories, Event, Recover

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz Grillparzer

Work, May, Often

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
Maggie Stiefvater

Both, Writer, Novel

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.
Sonny Bono

Same, Actually, Players

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