Mistake Quotes

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.