Missing An Event Quotes

#1. At a social event she and I would normally have attended together, an acquaintance came up and said to me, simply, "There's someone missing." That felt correct, in both senses.

Julian Barnes

#2. When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface ... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.

Richard Louv

#3. Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

Alexander Payne

#4. The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

David Rudisha

#5. It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

Carson McCullers

#7. You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

Betty Hill

#8. In words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

Salman Rushdie

#9. Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

George Ball

#10. He'd forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed.

Terry Pratchett

#11. We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

#12. When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

Philipp Meyer

#13. I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Waifs and bloody strays, because normal people wouldn't be coppers.

Terry Pratchett

#15. You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts.

Joe Vitale

#16. At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.

Douglas Adams

#17. Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill.

Markelle Grabo

#18. A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

S.J Perelman

#19. Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

Henry Selick

#20. I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

Calvin Harris

#21. He made it hard for a girl to not fall head over heels.

Jill Shalvis

#22. The chances are you've never seen the other side of me. You've seen the event side of me when I'm on stage. But there is another side of me. If you evoke that side, you won't like it. It's a nasty side. You don't want to see that side. You're not missing anything by not seeing it.

Prem Rawat