Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nate Ruess

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

Monty Python

We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.

Richard Flanagan

John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.

Curtis Stone

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.

Clive Barker

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

Tony Judt

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

James D. Watson

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Stella Young

I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.

Zadie Smith

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Ridley Scott

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

Patricia Richardson

I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.

Michael Robertson

Microsoft has conceded that the server will have some Linux competition, but they've drawn a line in the sand at the desktop.

Lynette Matsushima

I think men are drawn to Pilates because they have this vague notion it will help them with back issues. But they stick with it because it truly makes them feel better.

Dave Davis

We got the model Pfeiffer player as far as toughness and unselfishness. And hard-nosed as he is on the court, he's just as good a guy off it. He's not loud, but people are drawn to him. He communicates with everyone from 5-year-olds to the president of the university.

Hannah Kent

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Gretchen Rubin

Most people enjoy 'potato-chip news' from time to time - to track a presidential election or the Oscars. However, some are particularly drawn to material that makes them feel shocked, frightened, insecure, or indignant, and that's what potato-chip news often provides.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

David Aebischer

Usually, you should win these games. Somehow right now, we are a little short.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.