Excuse Quotes

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.