#missing

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#atlantic ocean #backward #crab #crawling #ever

I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#best #chance #college #felt #four

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#appearance #buffalo #cannot #emigrants #four

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#anymore #girlfriend #her #just #like

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

What's missing from pop music is danger. ↗

— Prince

#missing #music #pop #pop music

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#because #clock #did #each #i

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#know #learnt #missing #order #rules

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#age #because #makes #missing #more

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#children #could #grandchildren #i #missing