Excuse Quotes

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
Bill Keller

Care, Country, Rights

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
Mark Spitz

Sports, Successful, Tomorrow

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Simon Travaglia

Thoughts, Sometimes, Actions

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

Made, Around, Days

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.
Jonathan Lethem

Crazy, Character, Book

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.
Colin Hanks

Good, Order, Late

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
Christopher Hampton

Good, Movies, Nice

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.
Anna Lindh

Respect, Fight, Human

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.
Greg Ginn

Blame, Small, Others

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.
James Young

Rock, Others, Band

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.
Jason Ritter

Nice, Play, Keep

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.
Regis Philbin

Work, God, Everything

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.
Shannen Doherty

Guy, Nervous, Dinner

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.
Rob Portman

Government, Society, Crisis

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.
Richard Ford

Time, Good, Hate

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

Love, Keep, Reading

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White

Together, Young, Read

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.
John Prescott

Home, Said, Happened

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?
Jupiter Hammon

Same, Crime, Master

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
Dax Shepard

Technology, Place, Opinion

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
Ryan Tedder

Whole, Getting, Voice

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Jeanne Calment

Life, Parents, Tight

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Benjamin Jowett

Research, Value, Achieve

When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Happens, Left, Accident

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
Doug Flutie

Basketball, Baseball, Play

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
Jerry Rice

Young, Team, Learn

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
William Camden

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.
Deryck Whibley

Stupid, Dark, Older

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman

Bad, Give, Parent

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
Eric Bogosian

Acting, Write, Create

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