Missing Quotes (119)
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I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
By : Damon Albarn
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
By : Alexis Arguello
I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.
By : Jim Bakker
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
By : John Perry Barlow
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
By : John Barrymore
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
By : Monica Bellucci
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
By : Michael Bergin
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.
By : Bernardo Bertolucci
While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
By : Earl Blumenauer
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.
By : Drew Brees
There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
By : Jimmy Buffett
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
By : Carter Burwell
There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
By : Madonna Ciccone
I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.
By : Jessi Colter
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
By : Jim Cooper
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
By : Quentin Crisp
That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
By : Denise Crosby
I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.
By : Jessica Cutler
You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.
By : Terrell Davis
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
By : Larry Dixon
I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
By : Patty Duke
I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
By : Dale Earnhardt
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.
By : Paul Engle
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
By : Colin Firth
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
By : Dennis Flanagan
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
By : Richard Foreman
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.
By : Lukas Foss
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.
By : Brendan Fraser
So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.
By : Jami Gertz
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.
By : Kenneth Grahame
I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.
By : Bo Gritz
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
By : Walter Hagen
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.
By : Peter Hain