Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Connolly

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Compay Segundo

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

Daphne Guinness

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Daniela Bobadilla

Charming is the perfect word to describe Charlie [Sheen]. That's why people love him. He's so personable. They can relate to him. He made mistakes and he knows it. Everyone is like that. That is why he has so many fans.

Daniel Libeskind

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

Dan Millman

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

Dan Millman

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

Corrie Ten Boom

The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

Common

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

Colum McCann

Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

Conan O'Brien

It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way.

Conan O'Brien

In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president's exact quote was: 'I ain't make none mistakes ever.'

Conan O'Brien

Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.

Colin Quinn

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

When you play at this level, one mistake can be the game.

This whole team is stepping it up this year. We still make mistakes that we shouldn't, but we're getting better.

We're not ready to win a State championship with them, but I thought they passed their first test. What I really like about them is every scrimmage they got better. We have pointed out mistakes and every scrimmage they got better.

To me, the mistakes we make on replay all come when we overturn when we shouldn't overturn,

Orson Scott Card

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

We are young and we are still making mistakes. Overall, I think we are doing all right.

David Mann

We don't want to be referred to as the Mistake on the Lake.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

Kurt Vonnegut

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Lord Chesterfield

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

Katherine Anne Porter

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart ...