Quotes About Mismatch

You would not want me on your football team.

There was something wrong about seeing her now. It was as if they belonged to different worlds. He wished he could excuse himself.

Love did not suit her. Her face was not made for dreamy expressions, and her long, restless body did not fit comfortably into postures of romantic languor.

Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.

There is one who kisses and the other who offers a cheek.

His intelligence was matched with his lack of practicality.

and spaghetti was busgetti

Our moods meet in the wrong places.

Students mismatched with institutions whose standards they did not meet would either fail to graduate as often as others or would manage to graduate only by avoiding difficult subjects like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon – both sides were totally unprepared, not to mention the fact that they had their parts mixed up. The girls were only interested in romance, and the robots in completing a transaction.

it was like putting a back screen door on a bank vault: ridiculous.

I suppose we were drawn to each other because neither of us quite fitted in.

The team quickly made a surprising discovery: only 50% of the source code in their development and test environments matched what was running in production.

What's so poignant about this mismatch is that a winning campus-to-career alliance is within reach—if only the combatants could talk about their values, needs, and achievements in a shared language that makes sense to one another. Instead, scholars, students, and employers are at odds because of an agonizing translation problem.

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight -- and Levi can't even read.

And, talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more harmful than before because of changes in the atmosphere, or populations living in an environment mismatching the pigmentation of their skin—or rather, that makers of sun protection products need to make some profits?

We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

Golf and dating don't mix.

As a complete score, I love 'Sherlock Holmes' - but we cast it badly. We put Ron Moody into the part - a great Fagin, not a great Sherlock Holmes.

Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.

She had the right church, but the wrong pew.

She had as much use for a baby as a lion has for fins.