Definition of Misses - BrainyQuote

Misses Quotations

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace Walpole

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.
Bret Michaels

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
Bob Woodward

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
Howard Schultz

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.
Trish Stratus

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

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.
Cory Doctorow

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
Charles S. Dutton

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.
Brian Boitano