#misses

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#failure #luck #near-hits #near-misses #nearly

Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#auditions #being #busy #felt #had

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#any #because #entire #i #interested

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#being #country #detest #everything #fight

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#any #athens #been #bitterness #came

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#get #knocked #know #many #misses

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've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#had #hits #i #misses #plenty

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#did #doing #everybody #father #follow