“Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.” MayLittlesUniverseSpaceIssuesMissingTrumpUnpredictableOuter Space Author:Noam Chomsky
“If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament.” IfsJoyChristMissingTestamentTestimonyFullnessNew TestamentPresentationUrgency Author:Mark Dever
“I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.” YearsDifferentCountryRealityCultureCoursesFoundSpeakBitsFantasyMissingNew YorkSouthVersionsFranceVillageRealisticSpellsWornFluentSmall VillagesFrench Culture Author:Danielle Trussoni
“What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.” KindInterestingMissingTrumpCitizensClaimsCapitalistFascistsMelodramaCitizen Kane Author:Errol Morris
“I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.” ThinkingKnowsWantWellsLittlesParentPerfectSecretMissingDamnNot Perfect Author:Judy Blume
“The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. When the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. Your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. You're not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.” SpaceBrainMissingInformationParticularBlindPatternsDisappearBackgroundsHolesSpotsPerceiveVisualsLocationPatchesDotsBlacknessWhitenessBlind Spots Author:David Eagleman
“I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.” IfsKnowsWritingKnow HowWifeMissingMy WifeChecks Author:Steve Harvey
“Prosthetics just felt very foreign to me: You wear them on your shoulders, strap them to your chest, and they're heavy and uncomfortable. If someone gave you a hug, you'd miss that touch. They were more like a cage for me.” IfsFeltMissingHeavyShouldersUncomfortableChestsHugCagesProstheticsHug You Author:Jessica Cox
“You don't want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.” IfsWorldWantRunningGuyFightingMissingGoes OnPicksWithout You Author:Bob Goff
“I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.” WaySometimesResponsibilityTalkingKnowingMissingConversationHumorousIntenseReputationLighters Author:Alison Bechdel
“Living in a place like Pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. And sometimes you'll ask their parents, you know - you didn't try to stop them? Like, why didn't you say, don't go - I'll miss you? Stay with me. And, you know, people say, well, it's best for them. They have to go. And parents, you know, take on that sadness because they know it's better for their children if they leave.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingWellsChildrenSometimesAsksParentSadnessMissingPakistanStay With MeI'll Miss You Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were in school, when most people - at least in my little socioeconomic corner of the world - live not with their families or sexual partners, but with same-sex friends. I really miss that from college. I never really thought at the time about how things would never be that way again.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLittlesLongSchoolSexEasyMissingCollegeCornersPartnersSubstitutesSchedulesCorners Of The World Author:Elif Batuman
“A man who does not know how to have a relationship of friendship with a woman - I'm not talking about misogynists, who are sick - well, he's a man who is missing something.” KnowsMenWellsDoeTalkingKnow HowMissingSickNot TalkingMissing Something Author:Pope Francis
“Senator [Tom Cotton] got a ton of blowback. He became the star of fake missing person`s signs, encouraging folks to call if they saw him and also to call him and ask why he had been missing while his constituents were looking for him.” IfsPersonsAsksStarsSawsMissingFolksFakeTomsSenatorsCottonConstituentsMissing A Person Author:Rachel Maddow
“War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of genetic material, or that it's a celebration of life, or you can make up 50,000 theories about why human beings have sex, all of which are in some sense true, all of which by themselves miss the point. Because the answer is extraordinarily complex. It may be for fun, it may be for reproduction, for financial reasons, any number of things.” HumansMayWarReasonFunSexHuman BeingsAnswersNumbersMissingMaterialsTheoryComplexesFinancialCelebrationReproductionCelebration Of Life Author:George Friedman
“We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.” IfsShouldWarMightOpportunityCausesChanceMissingUltimateAskingCauses Of War Author:Jaron Lanier
“I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.” PeopleThinkingNeedsDifferentRealityMotivationLeftChanceForeverCarMissingLimitsLosingBusyDisappearDrivingFantasticUrgesDriversFormulasNot InterestedTake A ChanceAirlineAdrenalineFormula OneAdrenaline Rush Author:Niki Lauda
“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.” PeopleThinkingGivingDesireOpportunitySexCommunityMissingMovementPossibilityBuildingGiving UpTraditionShameProfoundAshamedTerrifiedOur LoveEmbeddedCommunity BuildingBuilding Community Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.” IfsGovernmentWould BeLevelsMissingSovereignQuebecMunicipality Author:Jane Jacobs
“In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.” BelievePersonsStillsFactsTodayCertainI BelieveDealsMissingFiguresPaintingVariousDrawingClayStill Life Author:Warren MacKenzie
“When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.” Has BeensMissingColorSuitsDustTouchedGray Author:Pablo Picasso
“First of all you got ESPN, Fox Sports, all that, you don't miss one thing. People don't understand that. Like you could watch the whole NFL, I've got the RedZone coverage, I got my DirecTV stuff. You can watch everything in the NFL in a whole hour and you missed nothing. Anything that was worth watching is going to be played over and over again. It's like the MTV Awards.” PeopleFirstsWholeStuffSportsHoursWatchesOne ThingMissingLike YouNflAwardsFoxesCoverageMtvEspn Author:Terry Crews
“Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards?” MissingAwardsMtv Author:Terry Crews
“SportsCenter? You watch it and I didn't miss one thing. Chris Berman, they give you the whole rundown. I'm like wow. And I go in there and I walk in the next day, I know everything. They'll be like, "Oh did you see that?" I'd be like "Yeah I did," but it didn't take five hours.” KnowsGivingWholeNextHoursWalksWatchesFiveOne ThingMissingYeahWowNext Day Author:Terry Crews
“[Muppets] all have their own teams. And I had to get it over to [Miss] Piggy's team and approvals, but she was with it.” TeamMissingApprovalMuppetPiggyMiss Piggy Author:Terry Crews
“[Miss] Piggy was amazing, I was nervous because I wrote our opening. I wrote the song, wrote what we were going to do. And first I was hoping that they would approve it, because they're not playing.” FirstsSongMissingOpeningNervousPiggyMiss Piggy Author:Terry Crews
“I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.” PeopleThinkingFactsTakenMissingScream Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu.” IfsThinkingWayWellsStoriesAbleFeltPerfectHeardMissingWake UpSellingMaskLegendsWakingShoppingOrgansEpisodesUrbanJustifiedMenusKidneysSaturatedBathtubsIconographyMissing ItUrban Legends Author:Bryan Fuller
“When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with US dollars now." I mean that it is so utterly brain dead, because they miss the whole point: the reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.” PeopleNeedsMeanReasonWholeGovernmentValuesBrainMissingDisciplineGoldDollarsFinancialSilverBad ThingsCurrencyGold And SilverFinancial SystemBrain Dead Author:Bernard von NotHaus
“Where are the flamboyant characters?! This is what America desperately needs right now! Flamboyant intellectual characters who can cut different ways. And, that's just what I'm missing.” WayNeedsDifferentCharacterAmericaCuttingMissingRight NowIntellectualDifferent WaysFlamboyant Author:Matt Drudge
“I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.” PeopleThinkingWayWantI CanSometimesCan DoFictionMissingBehaviorDocumentariesObservingUnspoken Author:Robert Greene
“I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.” IfsThinkingMotherFatherHouseLostMissingConcernedGenderTendernessCoinsHousewifeParables Author:Max Lucado
“I've always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths. We come in. We don't know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they're gone and it's kind of melancholy. You miss that guy but then suddenly you're working with him again maybe somewhere.” PeopleKnowsKindLittlesJobsGuyGoneMissingCommunicationBirthBunchIntimateMelancholyThat GuyBirth And Death Author:Beau Bridges
“You can't just have a good voice. You need a great voice, song, performance and video. When people see you, it all has to match up. There's a lot of missing parts in R&B right now. That's why it's not selling right now. Things that are irresistible, people will pay for it.” PeopleNeedsSongVoicePayMissingRight NowPerformancesVideoSellingIrresistibleGreat Voice Author:Sean Garrett
“If you look at all the artists I've ever worked with, I'm still blessed enough to have one of the biggest singles of their career. My passion is for them and I put my everything into these songs. i get into their life and what their aesthetic is. That's what's missing from R&B. People don't take it serious enough.” PeopleIfsLooksStillsEnoughArtistSongPassionCareersMissingSeriousBlessedAestheticMy PassionSingles Author:Sean Garrett
“I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsMadeHardThreeEvilHoursCommonMissingTrumpPeriodsDramaComputerMade ItOur TimeHorizonRegimes Author:Jonathan Raymond
“I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsMindJobsWhiteMissingFolksEducate Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.” PeopleIfsHelpingUseJesusGoalCommunityMankindMissingHavensChangedClothesGoldHotCleanHip HopRapHipsFortunateMealsHopsShowersHomelessLess FortunateNew ClothesCommunity CentersCelebrity StatusClean Clothes Author:Mr. T
“My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.” PeopleWantShouldValuesParentRolesTeacherMissingLike YouDadModelsImportanceEducatedMinistersRole ModelsYour DadFreemanValue Of EducationImportance Of EducationCognizant Author:David C. Driskell
“I'd seen the Led Zeppelin reunion and I've never been such a huge Led Zeppelin fan as much as the Doors or Beatles. I went and saw the reunion and watching them play "Stairway to Heaven," it was very breathtaking for one reason mostly. I can imagine these two guys looking at each other, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Not to compare us to Led Zeppelin, but I did miss the fact that I could look over at the guy, Twiggy Ramirez, that wrote "The Beautiful People" and "Dope Show." Emotionally, it's taken a long time to repair that.” PeopleLooksLongI CanTwoReasonPlayFactsShowsBeautifulGuyHeavenTakenSawsImagineDoorsFansMissingHugePagesLong TimePlantCompareJimmyDopeReunionBeautiful PeopleZeppelinsBreathtakingTwo GuysStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Marilyn Manson
“I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam.” PeopleThinkingCountryAnimalMissingBuildingGardenTraditionNeighborHonestlyCraving Author:Novella Carpenter
“That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.” OpportunityMissingAim Author:Kiri Te Kanawa
“Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.” WantMightAgeDangerousMissingOffersBirthday60th Birthday Author:Nicole Kidman
“I think we have to be careful saying what we will never do, because what we do is we limit what God has for us by saying what we will never ever do. A lot of times, we miss the right companion, job, or opportunity because we say we won't ever.” ThinkingOpportunityMissingCarefulCompanionBe Careful Author:Avery Sunshine
“The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.” MissingNot AfraidAmnesia Author:John Calipari
“The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not just missing a certain part of American society that wanted to vote for, say, Donald Trump, but what role has the media played in dehumanizing other people and helping create these conditions that people are so afraid of, say, Muslims and extremism?” PeopleHelpingMissingVoteExtremism Author:Peter van Agtmael
“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.” MissingPossibilityPrinted Author:David Byrne
“Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with that delusion came of lot of happiness. Life was really black and white: if you do these things now, God will you invite you to his house where you will love forever and everything will be happy forever. That's what I believed, and that makes life pretty sweet. I do miss it.” HouseBeliefBlackForeverMissingSweetGods WillDelusionBlack And WhiteLooking BackLife HappinessForever Love Author:Michaela Coel
“There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing kids and, therefore, we wouldn’t have a problem at all. But what’s missing in that equation is that you do have a lot of parents in this country who are very involved in their children’s education and who do want something better. They want to see better for their kids. They know that they’re in schools that aren’t performing particularly well and if you look at how we treat those parents, it is quite poorly.” ChildrenCountryProblemKidsSchoolBeliefParentMissingPerforming Author:Michelle Rhee
“I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible. I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends. I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.” ImportantMissingBalanceFamily And FriendsMy Best Friend Author:Felicity Jones