Songs that are just a vehicle for a guitar solo are very empty, just an excuse for a guitarist to show what scales he practiced last month.
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you’re either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
My grandmother was sick and I was told that we could not tell her, and that my cousin was gonna have this wedding as an excuse for us to all go and see her. And I think that I was just so frustrated by the situation.
While faith need not be monolithic – it can motivate both voting behavior and character development – focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
I was knocking on people’s doors. I knocked on a white couple’s door, and I told them, I says, ‘Excuse me, but I’ve been born again.’ The guy said, ‘Hon, call security. There’s a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.’
It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that’s not an excuse to play good or bad golf.
When you think about Kobe it’s, ‘No excuse. Nothing can put your mind off what you love to do.’ It’s the Mamba mentality, for sure.
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there’s no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.
When I started out, I had no idea what I was doing. I was 16, and acting was a new, exciting thing. So, I took it on. It was an excuse to get away from college.
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.
I just know what I’m capable of. When I don’t do it, you can always throw the excuse – you’re young, it’s a process, this and that – but I know what I can do. Just staying patient and just keep putting in hard work and keep God first and the sky is the limit.
I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.
People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made – and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn’t show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you’re disabled. Don’t even try.
When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it’s pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I’m gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
There’s no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.
I live for any excuse to ‘dress for the occasion.’
I’m having to deal with the LeBrons, Paul Georges, Gianniss, KDs, the 6ft 8in to 6ft 11in guys who can do everything at my height, shoot, play make, block shots, defend. They set the precedent I’ve got to uphold. There’s no excuse for me. That’s my goal, to be at their level.
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 will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people’s concerns.
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ‘Excuse My Dust’ – I was 17 at the time – I knew that this was what I’d been looking for.
There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.
You sometimes use the excuse, ‘I’m a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,’ but that doesn’t work.
I don’t think there’s any excuse for not being able to put on a beautiful product and make yourself feel fabulous. Just have some key pieces in your wardrobe that aren’t seasonal.
I would never ever joke, kid, or use cancer as an excuse.
If we go out we’ll go to the cinema which is a great excuse for me to eat popcorn.
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
There is much in the result of John Chilcot’s seven-year inquiry into the decision-making that led to Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that can be cited to excuse headlines that refer to his findings as ‘scathing’ and ‘damning.’
If you don’t try your hardest, and you’re unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.
The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn’t necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.
I’m very finicky about when I’m in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
I always keep my script in the wings – a hangover from my rep days when we had no prompter and, if all else failed, I would make an excuse and rush off the stage to have a quick look.
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
I love going on dates. They’re like social experiments and it’s an excuse to get dressed up. Even if you don’t get on, it’s a funny experience to tell the girls.
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
Before any family is placed in any type of shelter, there must be a thorough, top-to-bottom, building-wide inspection. These inspections must be ongoing and publicly accessible. There is no excuse for any person to be blindly put into an apartment without a guarantee that the space is safe.
We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, ‘Ooh, we’re having a water crisis.’ This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
I mean, I’m a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it’s going to be a good time.
I don’t mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.
We excuse movies like ‘Independence Day’ that really lack logic and say, ‘It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s a ride.’ I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
Islamic terrorists do not need an excuse to attack the United States. To attack us is what they do; they attack us for what we are.
My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn’t have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn’t have to make sense.
There’s no excuse for fur in this day and age.
I believed that regardless of political ideologies – the reality was I didn’t even have any – which is no excuse, and it’s a horrible thing to admit, but I’ve admitted it – you can’t get into something not knowing who the players are, but also not understanding that policy and ethics go together.
Too much research can be the writer’s enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it’s easy to convince yourself that you’re working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.
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.
People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.
