I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L. A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.
I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind. " "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it. " "My earrings?" "What earrings?
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
Just play every hand, you can't miss them all.
There is always something missing that torments me.
If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.
As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness. "
I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.
Love burns across the infinitude.
Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.
The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
