Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Payn

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

James McAvoy

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

James Marsters

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think. Read more at: http://tr.im/dKLVG

James Lovelock

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

James Lovelock

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

James Larkin

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Joe Garagiola

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Joe E. Lewis

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Joan Didion

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

Joan Jett

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

Joan Jett

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

Joan Jett

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Jimi Hendrix

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

Jim Morrison

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Emmanuel Petit

When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation of ourselves is becoming more and more important everyday. Image is becoming too much for me, and we are living in a virtual world and sometimes it is very easy to make mistakes. It is more difficult to take responsibility for our mistakes.

Emma Watson

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

John Mellencamp

We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital - that was a huge mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn't improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn't as durable.

John McCain

Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.

John McCain

The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in the streets of Iran will go down as one of the great mistakes of the 21st Century.

John McCain

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

John McCain

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

John McCain

It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.

John Lancaster Spalding

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

John le Carre

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

John Knox

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

John Barth

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.

Jim Nussle

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

Jim Petro

When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.

Jim Otto

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

Jim Otto

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

Jim Lehrer

Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.

Joanna Garcia

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

Jim Rohn

It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.