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“Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.”

Heart Soul Bigs Team Missing Proud League Nba Boston Knicks

Author:Doug Collins

“His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.”

Believe Hands Eye Hate I Believe Loss Fate Dog Missing Mines Cat Noses Grieving Contempt Tails Foe

Author:William Watson

“The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.”

Littles Long Missing Tall Larry Dizzy

Author:Jon Landau

“Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.”

Source: Transparent things: a novel

“If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Helping Hours Break Blood Missing Starting Glasses Productive Desks Antiques Hour Glasses

Author:Dan Brown

“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.”

“What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.”

I Can Ideas Helping Hands Wanted Missing Smell No Idea Second Hand Bookshops

Author:David Mitchell

“To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.”

Ifs Important Ideas Technology Missing Tools Ultimate Mathematics Simplicity Mathematical Criticize Application Mathematician Abstraction Transfers Analogies Generalities

Author:Ian Stewart

“I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.”

Thinking Should Humor Funny Missing Husband Beer

Author:Steven Wright

“I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good.”

Feels Writing Real Wife Missing Married My Wife Focused Sober Grounded Great Family Happily Married

Author:Joe Walsh

“You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.”

People World Sometimes Happens Mistake Missing Mark Brilliant Making Mistakes

Author:James Corden

“I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.”

Ideas Together Film Watches Missing Crew Printed Selected

Author:Roger Deakins

“It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is easy, comedy's hard." I think the broader it gets, if you miss by a millimetre, you've missed completely. It's a very hard thing to do.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Easy Comedy Dying Missing Things To Do Quantity Hard Things

Author:Colin Firth

“Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.”

Ifs Sometimes Might Happens Film Missing Genius Scene Performances Things Happen Shooting Capture Lenses Wrong Direction

Author:Ray Winstone

“Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.”

Ifs Want Giving Persons Three Actors Left Chance Missing Type Glory Shots Balls Seconds Lumps

Author:Bryan Cranston

“Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"”

People Sometimes Past Wonder Plans Missing Settling Monogamy

Author:Emily Yoffe

“No matter what the level of funding or success may be, there's always money missing, and you still want to have a gorgeous image, an endless cast and a flawless rendering.”

Want May Stills Matter Levels Missing No Matter What Casts Endless Gorgeous Funding Rendering Flawless

Author:Michel Ocelot

“When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.”

Home Running Missing Arms Forgiveness Protection His Love Provision Missing Out

Author:Charles Stanley

“The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.”

Thinking Way Real Mother Given Voice Inspiring Audience Missing Honesty Members Hollywood Saint Motherhood Mothers Day

Author:Ellen Barkin

“I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.”

Men Hard Feelings Water Missing Cold Ocean Okay Coming Out Showers Diving Cold Water

Author:Angus Stone

“At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?”

Ends Actors House Missing Shoes Movie Outfits

Author:Tara Reid

“I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.”

People Knows Missing Nostalgia Melancholy

Author:Agnes Varda

“I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.”

Thinking Kind Real Sometimes Kids Night Responsibility Comedy Missing College Late Late Night

Author:Alex Borstein

“It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.”

Ifs Bigs Today Missing Needed Happenings Something New Groceries Supermarkets Predecessors

Author:William Eggleston

“What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.”

Has Beens Moments Missing Information Example Possibility Depth Wide Digital Packages Printed Digital Music

Author:David Byrne

“Sometimes when we try to get outside of ourselves, to be like someone else, you miss out on so many beautiful things that you don't know that you are because you're looking at someone else.”

Knows Trying Sometimes Beautiful Missing Beautiful Things

Author:Salma Hayek

“I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.”

Important Prayer Missing Yoga

Author:Russell Simmons

“One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.”

People Needs May Reason Moving Desire Natural Cities Missing Conscious Rhythm Unconscious Trends Moving Out Missing It

Author:Shakti Gawain

“Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.”

Sometimes Enough Facts Missing Had Enough Opium Lsd Bad Experiences

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.”

Enough Wanted Felt Saws Missing College Tvs Boxing Mma Wrestling Juniors Missing Something Kickboxing

Author:Cain Velasquez

“I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.”

Missing Catholic Theologian Upbringing

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Made Seems Film Bits Successful Five Missing Driving Treated Five Years Elderly Daisies Five Year Olds Cocoons

Author:Maggie Smith

“So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Said Done Actors Asks Dark Saws Wonderful Missing Directors Beats Phones Stranger Dialogue Tall Valentine Psychics Woody Good Actors Maggie

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”

Thinking Missing Right Now

Author:Huangbo Xiyun

“My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.”

Knows World Life Is Week Missing Havens My Favorite Cycles Pope Public Life Infallible

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.”

Lasts Missing Mouths Contests Beauty Contest Congeniality

Author:Phyllis Diller

“One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.”

Thinking Opportunity Interesting Missing Oneself Quoting

Book:Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917

Source: Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917

“We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.”

Missing Majors Miracle

Book:Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)

Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)

“In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.”

May Important Real Ends Enough Too Much Failing Missing Objects Models Physics Monsters Abstract Charybdis Scylla

Book:Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

Source: Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

“I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Said Shows Would Be Class Teach Pieces Missing Late Fabulous Deadline Love To Read Lush

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.”

Missing Activity Standards Research Discovery Tradition Accounts Impression Usual Novelty Journalistic Flashy Newsworthy

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone.”

Ifs World Way Needs Giving Littles Shows Spirit Simple Fashion Missing Hundred Riches Margins

Author:David Dunn

“Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.”

States Beautiful Causes Our Lives Missing Meaningful Unawareness

Book:Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Source: Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Might Would Be Dies Left Four Dying Missing He Man Needed Findings Ordinary Concerned Decided Experts One Man Meaningless Appointments Ordinary Man Knocked Down

Author:William McIlvanney

“I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.”

Light Beautiful Morning Missing Early Morning Start The Day Morning Light

Author:David Hockney

“As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.”

Source: Power Politics

“Last year my wife ran off with the fellow next door and I must admit, I still miss him.”

Years Stills Lasts Next Wife Doors Missing Fellows My Wife Ran Last Year

Author:Les Dawson

“I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.”

I Can Done Missing Weight Cameras Photograph Drawing Volume Flatness

Author:David Hockney

“When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.”

Want Long Problem Might Jobs House Heard Missing Comfort Conversation Solutions Solve Release Employee Cleaning Doing Me Valve Interrupting House Cleaning

Author:Rands

“It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.”

Thinking Needs Eye Turns Goal Plans Magic Missing Sticks Surprise Conclusion Fixed Unexpected Contradiction Advise Sneak True You Unexpected Places

Author:Paul Reiser

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