Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Iverson

We have to get it done, that's no excuse.

Dan Sanso

We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.

Ed Smith

We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.

Alan Nevin

The reality is that there should not be an impact. However, many of the material suppliers and subcontractors are using that as an excuse for raising prices.

Stacy Robinson

Very angry, there is no excuse for this.

Jim Provuncher

We did have mental breakdowns. There are no excuses for that.

Angela Merkel

We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,

Joe Mullen

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

Bruce Nauman

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

Kenneth Baker

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

David Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Hassan Rouhani

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Paul Johnson

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

Lee Benson

History never repeats itself, historians do.

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Michael Korda

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Alice McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Arthur C. Clarke

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Kevin Connors

People will move to the (Mac-Intel) products at the same rate they move over to the new systems. It will take some time for the transition to happen, but it's inevitable that it will.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

David Rakoff

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

Jorge Chabat

With all the money and power of the drug cartels, it was inevitable the AFI would become corrupted.

Donald Farish

Tuition is the last place we'll go. It's inevitable that it will go up some. The question is, how much?

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Sandra Cisneros

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Joe Pavelski

The outcomes have been really good. I just like playing here.

David Mitchell

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

Catherine Crier

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Charlie Munger

We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

Charlie Munger

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

Deepak Chopra

Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.

Dominique de Villepin

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

Earl Browder

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Deb Caletti

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Jamal Boykin

We're all from very different placesLondon, Lithuania, L.A.and all wanted stuff to remind us of home.

Ted Koppel

Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,

Pat Riley

This trip reminds me of when I started. You've got to get after it.

Daniel Cohen

This trial will do one thing: It will serve to remind the world what really happened.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Robert Bennett

I am subject to expulsion if I divulge anything that is going on.

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Bill Condon

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

Barton Gellman

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Joe Gershtenson

When you get a thousand cuts, it can kill you.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Roz Chast

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Sergio Garcia

Two thousand? Two thousand was... Valhalla. He's not back at where he was in 2000 for sure.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.