There may be people who have more talent than you but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers ' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

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

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

I will be as harsh as truth and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

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

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being and not enough energy putting themselves on the line growing out of the past and getting on with their lives.

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

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

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.

Companies to date have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions top reasons for depression as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad yes. Angry yes. Depressed yes. Crazy yes. But there's no excuse for boredom ever.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

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.

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

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion then Communism and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

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.