Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.

Markus Naslund

We're fragile. It seems every mistake we make is in the net.

We're a young team and we made some mistakes. But we just ran out of time there at the end.

Dick Armey

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

Dianna Agron

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.

Diane von Furstenberg

You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.

Diane von Furstenberg

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

Dave Berry

We made a mistake. It's as simple as that,

Joey Harrington

We made a lot of mistakes, and I compounded it.

We made a lot of fundamental mistakes. When you make fundamental mistakes, you can't win.

Anne Sullivan

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

Alexi Giannoulias

While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

I made a big mistake of my life.

Michael Irvin

Make no mistake about it, this is my quarterback right here,

Ricky Gervais

The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.

Susan B. Anthony

It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.

Brian Weiss

If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.

Brian De Palma

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

Brent Spiner

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

Brent Scowcroft

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Brandi Chastain

The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people.

Brandi Chastain

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

Boris Becker

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

Bootsy Collins

We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.

Bobby Sherman

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Bode Miller

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

Bruce Dickinson

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

Brian Roberts

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

Brian Mulroney

My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber. My biggest mistake in life was pretending that I wasn't trying to avoid paying taxes on that money.

Brian Reynolds Myers

That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.