Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

Whit Cornell

Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.

Stand Watie

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Rollo May

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Maria Montessori

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

Nancy Friday

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

Troy Schaefer

We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.

Terri Holmes

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Brian Tracy

We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

Brenda Ueland

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Boz Scaggs

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Cardinal Richelieu

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Daniel Handler

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

Bruce Lee

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Charles Fillmore

I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.

Dave Mustaine

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Aubrey McClendon

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

James Wan

I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Charles Dance

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Jason Aldean

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Janet Malcolm

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.