Excuse Quotes

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

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.

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.

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.

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.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

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.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.