#excuse

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#audience #comes #excuse #force #merely

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#cool #everyone #excuse #france #french

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#boring #boring people #everything #excuse #i

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#consider #excuse #given #handed #handled

I'm not really in the excuse business. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#excuse #i #really

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. ↗

— Chris Rock

#excuse #get #high #i #i wish

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#blaming #devastating #emptiness #excuse #facing

Bad excuses are worse than none. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#excuses #none #than #worse

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#back #called #excused #few #full

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#elsewhere #evidence #excused #give #hand