Misfire Quotes & Sayings

...subway brakes spit ozone... — William S. Burroughs

Ren ... Did you know that Winston Churchill, the greatest orator of all time and one of the greatest leaders in the world, had a speech impediment? All of us botch our words from time to time. And honestly I'd much rather stammer than put my foot in my mouth, and I've done more than my fair share of that. You have no reason to be embarrassed or ashamed for a biological misfire you can't help. It's not an indictment on your intelligence, but it is on the the humanity and decency of anyone cruel enough to mock you for it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint. — Jamshyd Godrej

I was enraptured by the brain and how it could misfire, but it wasn't just the hardware that intrigued me, it was the software with the bugs. — Julie Holland

I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present. — Adam Schiff

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop. — Ellen Hopkins

He slowly turned around. "What is love? In English." I raised my brows. "Love, in English, is love?" "What is it in Spanish?" I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. "Amore?" He shook his head ever so slightly. "No. Love in Spanish is you. — Karina Halle

Every cell in us worships God. — Thomas Aquinas

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted. — A.B. Simpson

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. — Jeremy Taylor

Misfits' are often 'misunderstood'..
Being 'misunderstood' by 'Misfits' is a total Misfire!!
I can recognize and admire you 'Misfits of the World'!!..
You 'inspire' faith and hope in the 'mis' kind of World..
You are 'different'..you 'understand'..different..
That's why the 'coveted' Title.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire. — Rajneesh

She felt far away and horribly grounded at the same time, like her heart had been torn from her body and lost, and she didn't know whether she was her heart or her body. — Marie Rutkoski

If you're constantly making yourself available to people's whims, your time will become less valuable. Keep your backbone in any relationship - make sure you're not so dedicated to it, and it shall stay sweet forever. — Auliq Ice

Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person's brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn't fair. — Ellen Marie Wiseman

Yep." There was no shame in his answer. "My ego really couldn't handle having a misfire right now." "As opposed some other, more opportune time?" He laughed and pulled her jacket open. The zipper made a rasping sound as he slid it open, revealing the concave hollow of her belly beneath the same tan t-shirt he wore. "There really isn't a good time for that," he said. — Anonymous

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.
- Prince Kheldar of Drasnia — David Eddings

There are times when you've personally known things to misfire
the sentence that fell badly, the dull gift, slapdash comment, hobbled punch line, tight-fisted tip
trying to be too stupid, trying to be too clever, too silly, too carefree, too caring, too free. You can think back to those long and hollow pauses when you realised that you'd misjudged a mood, weren't paying attention, had taken the wrong risk. — A. L. Kennedy

Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person — William Golding

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno