Missing Something Quotes:

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

source: Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Missing, Statistics, Missing Something

Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

topic: Missing, Missing Something, Extraordinary

That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

- Pittacus Lore

topic: Missing Someone, Way, Missing Something, Someone You Miss, Deep Breath

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

- Amy Tan

source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.25, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Missing, Missing Something

I don't like to sleep. I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

- Vince McMahon

topic: Sleep, Missing, Missing Something

Somehow, being with Brittany brings something to my life that's missing, something ... right.

- Simone Elkeles

source: Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

topic: Missing, Missing Something, Brittany

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Life, I Miss You, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Missing, Inspirational Gratitude, Family Gratitude

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

- Cecelia Ahern

source: Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

topic: Morning, Silly, Missing, Missing Something

That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

- David Levithan

topic: Missing, Matter, Way, Missing Something

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

- Eric Liddell

topic: Missing, Second Best, Missing Something

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

- David Levithan

topic: Missing, Next, Missing Something

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

- Jami Gertz

topic: Missing You, Thinking, Missing, Missing Something

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

- Esther Freud

source: "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Esther Freud, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Missing, Magic, Needs, Missing Something

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

- Ivan Lendl

topic: Missing You, Sorry, Thinking, Not Sorry, Missing Something

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

- Judith Butler

topic: Grief, Missing, Desire, Missing Something

I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

- Vince McMahon

topic: Sleep, Missing, Missing Something

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.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Believe, Feel Better, Thinking, Missing Something

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

- Joseph Jarman

source: Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

topic: Missing You, Important, Accepted, Live Concerts, Missing Something

Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up here at the house, I would probably be missing something that was a lot more fun. I don't have that sense anymore.

- Rob Lowe

source: "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

topic: Fun, Reading, House, Missing Something

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

- Slash Coleman

topic: Thinking, People, Guy, Missing Something

I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.

- Wesley Eisold

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: People, Missing, Would Be, Missing Something

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

- Frans de Waal

source: "Are We in Anthropodenial?" by Frans de Waal, discovermagazine.com. July 1, 1997.

topic: Animal, Long, Missing, Kindness To Animals, Endowment

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Thinking, Breathing, Games, Missing Something

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

- Pope Francis

topic: Love You, Missing, Grace, Closeness, Missing Something

[The highs and lows of show business is] a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Believe, Missing, Lucky, Rollercoaster, Missing Something

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.

- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

topic: Thinking, Missing, Know It All, Missing Something

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Girlfriend, Husband, Thinking, Ex Husband, Missing Something

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

- Ned Rorem

topic: Music, Missing, Lovers, Missing Something

I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.

- Francisco Costa

source: "Costa's Calvin Klein". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 22, 2008.

topic: Sleep, Thinking, Missing, Missing Something

I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something.

- Thomas Kretschmann

topic: Children, Missing, Feelings, Missing Something

You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

topic: Death, Lonely, Jobs, Feel Sorry For You, Missing Something

The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.

- Jeffrey Bewkes

topic: Cutting, Phones, People, Missing Something

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

- Fred Armisen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Missing, Soldier, Way, Snl, Missing Something

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

- Gamal Abdel Nasser

topic: Missing You, Stupid, Moving, Missing Something

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Missing, Tea, Important, Missing Something

It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality. If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.

- Marc Chandler

topic: Sacrifice, Opportunity, Missing, Retailers, Missing Something

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

- Walter Dean Myers

topic: Reading, Kids, Medicine, Condemning, Suggesting

Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.

- Winona Ryder

topic: Thinking, Missing, Heathers, Rocky Horror, Little Women

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch." "They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting." She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.

- Susan Elizabeth Phillips

topic: Children, Eye, Gun, Perfect Match, Referring

You want to know what I was thinking?...I was thinking that I wished you'd been with me the last couple of days. I mean, I enjoyed getting to know everyone better. We ate lunch together, and the dinner last night was a lot of fun, but it just felt like something was wrong, like I was missing something. It wasn't until I saw you walking up the beach that I realized it was you.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Beach, Couple, Fun, Last Night, Missing Something

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

- Yohji Yamamoto

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Maestro, Missing Something

Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.

- Farley Mowat

topic: Dog, Travel, Boys, Mutts, Missing Something

When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.

- David Bach

topic: Men, Missing, Marketing, Warren Buffet, Missing Something

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

- Ricky Williams

topic: Mean, Ideas, Missing, Missing Something

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

- Reese Witherspoon

topic: Daughter, Mother, Husband, Hard Decision, Missing Something

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

- Olga Kurylenko

topic: Dad, Thinking, Missing, Missing Something