#missed

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#am #coming #going #i #i am

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#father #i #i always #looked #lost

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#being #could #dance #fall #into

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#gig #i #life #lot #me

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#away #cloudy #day #days #having

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#confluence #extraordinary #feel #global #i

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#away #back #being #competitive #considered

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#congregation #emotions #experience #fervor #heard

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em. ↗

— Rosalind Russell

#flops #i #match #missed