Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

Tyra Banks

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

Nimrat Kaur

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Gavin Newsom

I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,

Anatole France

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Abraham Lincoln

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.

He (James Earl Ray) said he wouldn't confess to anything he didn't do,

Hamish Bowles

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

He's a child. Thirteen-year-olds are more susceptible to a false confession than a 40-year-old.

Sue Kidd

I grew up in a small town in Georgia, and I must confess that I was mining my memories of that small town. I can vividly see a lot of the scenery in terms of my own place.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

To me, a statement and confession are not necessarily synonymous.

There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, ... I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

I think the worst of the confession season is over.

When I first met Stanley, I said, 'If you did this, you should confess to it, because it'll help. But he said, 'If my innocence will cost me my life, so be it.

Hamish Bowles

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

Mel Torme

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

John Ridley

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.

Lord Byron

As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?

Kinky Friedman

They knew he was a confession machine who would confess to anything. That's what happened that started this long cycle that Max has gotten here.

Norm Coleman

You're not prepared to put a mirror in front of your face and recognize your own inadequacies. Perhaps you may get a more sympathetic hearing if you had a willingness to confess your own sins in this.

Germaine Greer

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Once we hit the fourth quarter confession season, we'll see a pullback,

Publilius Syrus

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency

This is the most reckless and vicious prosecution that I have ever witnessed. There has been no confession whatsoever.

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.