Quotes About Missed Connections

#1. The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Seth Godin

#2. They speak little; it is as if the air has been churned up with decade's worth of fruitless pursuit and missed connections and thoughts unspoken, and they are waiting quietly for all this matter - these motes of opportunity forgone - to settle around them.

Doug Dorst

#3. I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.

Sophie Blackall

#4. narrowly missed connections. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running. It had all amounted to nothing, in the end.

Anne Tyler

#5. I've learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what's unsaid, what's underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Anna Kamienska

#6. Then why are you here?" Emma demanded. "Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don't date trees."
"I am not a tree." Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly.

Cassandra Clare

#7. A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#9. Do not fear what the setting sun may bring. Where there is a setting sun, there is also a rising one.

Renee Ahdieh

#10. What connections and experiences have I missed because I'm either remembering a former embarrassment or fearing a new one?

Emily P. Freeman

#11. Mr. Lincoln was generous by nature, and though his whole heart was in the war, he could not but respect the valor of those opposed to him. His soul was too great for the narrow, selfish views of partisanship. Brave by nature himself, he honored bravery in others, even his foes.

Elizabeth Keckley

#12. I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

Dr. John

#13. I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

Andy Lau

#14. I felt ashamed, really ashamed of all the years I'd spent trying to identify the father who happened to be mine, instead of simply claiming the best on offer.

Helen DeWitt

#15. There is power in words used accurately and well, and tragedy and missed train connections in words used carelessly.

Maryrose Wood

#16. I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

Shelby Lynne

#17. Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

#18. Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#19. *Always schedule enough time between connections. I always like to give myself at least two hours between flights. It's much easier to sit in the terminal for three hours than it is to sit on standby for two days because you missed your connection.

Morgan Carver Richards

#20. I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.

Leona Lewis