Quotes with missed

  • 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.
  • Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
  • As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
  • Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
  • When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.
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  • Richard Nixon A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Gore Vidal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bill Nye As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Andrew Lang He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
    Andrew Lang
    Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844 - 1912)
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  • Butch Trucks I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Adriana Lima I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
    Adriana Lima
    Brazilian model and actress (1981 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I missed the NFL by an inch. IRS problems... No money coming in, and not that many options left because I signed that stupid no-compete clause with WWE. I had no one to blame but myself.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Anne Perry I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Beck I'm not good at the protocols of dating. I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were dating-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
    Jane magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Buddy Guy I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • B. B. King 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
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • James Phillips If you see the bandwagon… you've missed it.
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  • Baruj Benacerraf In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Calamity Jane It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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