Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Monty Python

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Newcombe

In the morning of course, I'd have to, John would have to go round and apologise to everyone for what Jack had done or said to them.

Clint Hurdle

We have a starting pitcher on the disabled list right now and he will come off sometime this season. So competition, there's always competition.

Stella Young

For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.

John Wells

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

Paul Herrera

Realizing that about 80 percent of developmentally disabled people live at home, it shouldn't be surprising that pressures are mounting on these families.

Carolyn Sczepanski

People who haven't experienced Special Olympics before don't know what kids who are disabled can do. They just get out there and they have such a great time. It's so great to see the smiles on their faces. Being out there makes them feel so free.

Marjorie Rice

Sometimes I wonder if they really think about disabled people.

Aimee Mullins

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

Aimee Mullins

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.

David Barker

We don't really see a disabled person, not really,

Alan Brown

Would you identify the man in this picture?

Thomas Gould

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Paul Register

As much as you want to identify people, there has been a lot (more) time spent ruling out people. That is part of it.

R. Robinson

They said we needed to identify him so we did. We said this is Christopher Robinson.

Marcia Townsend

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

David Fincher

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

Richard Stein

As embarrassing as today's stories are, and the series to follow, it provides us an opportunity to identify the problems that exist,

John Thomas

People can identify with 16, even if you don't understand the significance of it at the time. You don't realize that's how people will remember you.

Cierra Ramirez

I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.