Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.

- Beth Brooke

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

- Derrick Jensen

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

- Dax Shepard

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

- Derek Jeter

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

- Dennis Miller

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

- David Bowie

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.

- Camille Claudel

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

- Camille Claudel

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

- Conor Oberst

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

- Bill Nelson

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

- Aesop

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

- Brit Marling

How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.

- Bill Copeland

I'm not really in the excuse business.

- Bill Parcells

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Alfred Jarry

If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.

- Alexi Zentner

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

- Alain Ducasse

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

- Ambrose Bierce

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

- Alain de Botton