#excuse

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#architecture #behind #believe #budget #city

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. ↗

— James Laughlin

#american #deal #excuse #going #good

Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water. ↗

— John Leech

#continually #excuses #finding #glass #small

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

#allowed #another #book #character #crazy

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. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anyone #buy #chicken #come #dad

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#accepts #difficulty #excuse #never

It's not the time to look for excuses. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#look #time

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#excuse #get #good #had #head