#excuse

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

— Eric Bogosian

#create #excuse #i #i write #performing

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give

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

— Benjamin Jowett

#achieved #any #excuse #idleness #mere

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. ↗

— Michael Caine

#game #grew #i #man #never

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Michael Caine

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#charge #could #excuse #fails #gets

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#excused #heard #individual #otherwise #sings

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. ↗

— David Frum

#economic #economic issues #environment #environmental #environmental issue

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

#because #breathe #dates #dinner #excuse

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#best #buck #coming #done #excuses