Famous Quotes & Sayings

Only he who does nothing makes a mistake

I was risking a lot and made a lot of mistakes because the visibility was terrible.

One mistake was waiting too long to evacuate. There were serious problems.

Jane Birkin

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

Jane Austen

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Jane Austen

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Jamie Oliver

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

Jamie Oliver

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

Jami Gertz

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

James Wolcott

One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed X and Y. And actually, that's the sort of thing that translates into writing, because a lot of the time you realize, I feel I need to add something here but actually what I need to do is subtract. And then there's always the psychodrama and the tears and the rage and the feuds.

Jason Blum

I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.

Jared Bernstein

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.

Janine Turner

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Janet Suzman

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Janet Frame

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

Miley Cyrus

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

I don't think we made any mistakes. But from a public relations perspective, it wasn't properly handled.

I don't think you can make a mistake in places like L.A.. The prices are ungodly, but they're only going to go up.

Michael Morse

I find it unfair that I am being punished three different times for making the mistake of taking steroids once in 2003,

Francisco Liriano

I feel like I made a mistake and I'll pay for it. I'm responsible for what I did. I'm really sorry for what happened. I made a big mistake.

I don't have an answer. Little mistakes give up big plays. You have to finish. You have to have more points on the scoreboard than the other team.

I don't have an answer. Little mistakes give up big plays.

I don't know what kind of a world it would be, or how many people would be in that world, if it were one mistake and you're done,

Paris Hilton

I do not want to make that mistake.

Ben Folds

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

Carl Sandburg

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Candy Crowley

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

Carine Roitfeld

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

C. S. Lewis

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

Miley Cyrus

The Moment You Stop Making Mistakes Is The Moment You Stop Learning

Miley Cyrus

It does get frustrating having the cameras on you all the time, because if you make mistakes, then the whole world knows about it. Like, it's not just your family and friends, it's everyone. Sometimes I'll watch myself on TV and ask myself, What am I doing, I am the biggest geek. My friends will call me and say, "OMG. Have you seen that commercial of you, you look like such a nerd."

Calvin Coolidge

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Burton Richter

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.