There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excuse after excuse for why this non-investment investment lost so much of its value so fast. One was that hackers attacked some of the exchanges for Bitcoins and crippled it. Really? A hacker can wreck an entire market?
Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
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.
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
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.
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.
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.
My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
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.
I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.
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.
