Miscast Quotes

#1. I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

Blythe Masters

#2. Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

Tina Brown

#3. Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

Stephen Covey

#4. Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

Amelia Earhart

#5. It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

John Gielgud

#6. I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

Richard Beymer

#7. All of a sudden, she was enveloped by a kind of vertigo
she had felt this sensation before, though she could not remember when. It was a feeling of being not herself, of being trapped in the wrong body, as if she had recently been miscast in a play that was her own life.

Reif Larsen

#8. Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

Jenny Lawson

#9. As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

Kevin Allen

#10. I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.

Donna Jo Napoli

#11. We can love God out of emotion; but when we can love Him out of emotion, knowledge and strength, our faith will thrive through all things.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#12. How often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

Blanche Willis Howard

#13. Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

George Lillo

#14. A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.

Cornelia Funke

#15. I was in awe every time I walked on to the field.

Ryne Sandberg

#16. Unfortunately, what I am waiting for is myself, as others hahahaha on streets where squabbles threaten and desire is dread.

Morrissey

#17. I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

Barry Goldwater

#18. I am writing a book entitled "Conquest." Please be ready. It is a book children should red.

Charles Keith Hardman