1,290 Quotes About Missing


  • Author Janet Evanovich
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    Ranger appeared in the bathroom doorway and I was too relieved to be embarrassed. "I appreciate you coming out in the middle of the night," I said. Ranger smiled. "I didn't want to miss seeing you chained up naked.

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  • Author James Ellroy
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    She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

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  • Author Jennifer Egan
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    When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

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  • Author Juan Enriquez
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    It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

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  • Author Mike Epps
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    I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

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  • Author Roger Ebert
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    If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.

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  • Author William Eggleston
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    It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

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