Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Stipe

I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

Michael Ondaatje

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

But you can see a mist all over the place.

Evan Williams

I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.

Neale Donald Walsch

The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.

Neale Donald Walsch

We have some role in almost everything that happens in our lives. When "bad" things happen, the mistake is not in the role, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, we call ourselves bad, since we had a role in their creation. We then have only two choices: blame ourselves, or disown our creative power, neither of which is congruent with our highest purpose.

Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

Nancy Werlin

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Nancy Werlin

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I think women make the same mistake with me all the time. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Miles Davis

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Miles Davis

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

Mila Kunis

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

Milan Kundera

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Miguel Cabrera

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

Miguel Cabrera

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

Marcel Proust

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.

Marcel Proust

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Marcel Proust

Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.

Lauryn Hill

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

Laura Kightlinger

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

Laura Miller

Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.

Lance Burton

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.

Lance Henriksen

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

Lance Armstrong

We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.

Lance Armstrong

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

Lisa Kudrow

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

Lisa Marie Presley

I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

Lisa Kleypas

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

Lisa Kleypas

How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.

Lisa Kleypas

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

Lisa Kleypas

If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

Lisa Kleypas

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.