“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.” PeopleWantYearsWholeWantedFeltChanceFourMissingCollegeNeededBalanceInvolvedScaredWhole LifePushingFour YearsHoping For The BestTime Passes Author:Guy Oseary
“When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.” TryingKindStatesAmericaAnswersAttentionSawsMissingNeededSafeCriticismMmaUnwillingTheatricalRivalryMiss America Author:Ronda Rousey
“I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.” MadeWholeYoungGirlParentAbilityMissingNeededDrawsDrawingWhole LifeIndispensableRestorationBourgeoisWovenTapestry Author:Louise Bourgeois
“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.” MayHas BeensLightFallFailingMissingDangerNeededHighestWake UpBusyPerceiveUnconsciousAbidingPresence Of God Author:Phillips Brooks
“This may sound weird but I miss traveling. I miss the road, seeing different places and being with the dancers and having fun. That feeling of being on the stage, knowing it's your best -- I love that. I needed a break. I needed to be hungry again.” MayDifferentFeelingsFunSoundBreakKnowingSeeingStageMissingNeededHungryHaving FunDancerDifferent Place Author:Britney Spears
“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.” IfsBigsTodayMissingNeededHappeningsSomething NewGroceriesSupermarketsPredecessors Author:William Eggleston
“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.” IfsKnowsMenImportantMightWould BeDiesLeftFourDyingMissingHe ManNeededFindingsOrdinaryConcernedDecidedExpertsOne ManMeaninglessAppointmentsOrdinary ManKnocked Down Author:William McIlvanney
“I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.” IfsStillsJobsPassionMissingNeededTomorrowMy FamilyQuittingPassion For Music Author:Aaron Watson
“I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.” WorldWayFeltMissingNeededWalkingAccountsDiedPeterBank Accounts Author:John Carlos
“I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.” KnowsPersonsStatesDoneFeltRocksMissingNeededEmptyFolksBurnedWrecksNobody KnowsPavementRelicsLingeringHead Of StateBurned OutTroubadoursMissing A PersonBygone Days Book:Chronicles: Volume One Source: Chronicles: Volume One