Excuse Me Quotes - Page 6

• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

  Edward M Hays

  Money, Simple, Expression

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• I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Humorous, Phones, Wish

  "Seinfeld". Season 2, Episode 4: "The Phone Message", 1989-1999.

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• There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Sorry, Nice, Aunt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Army, Rooms

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

  Nicole Richie

  Home, Body, Germs

  "The Truth About Diamonds". Book by Nicole Richie, 2005.

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• I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."

  Mark Wahlberg

  Mean, Talking, Guy

  "Mark Wahlberg Talks THE GAMBLER, Shedding Sixty Pounds For The Role, THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN, DEEPWATER HORIZON, and More". Interview, collider.com. December 23, 2014.

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• I don't understand people who go to amusement parks. I spend most of my time trying NOT to be nauseous. 'Excuse me, could you strap me in upside down? I'd like to be as sick as humanly possible. I feel great today, I think I'll go down to Funland and snap my neck on the back of a ride. Honey, let's bring the kids, I want to give them a spinal cord injury for Christmas.'

  Dom Irrera

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Years, Ideas

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• Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Order, Catholic

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from The Philippines to Rome, w2.vatican.va. January 19, 2015.

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• I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

  Becky Fischer

  Jesus, Israel, People

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• Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Praying, Excuse

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• In New York, Catholic groups have forced an art gallery to shut down an exhibition of a six-foot image of Jesus in chocolate. So, the Archbishop of New York was very upset. He said, 'It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.'

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Art, Atheist

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• We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk?

  Daniel Tosh

  Play, Names, People

  Song: Four, Album: Happy Thoughts, 2011

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• Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane

  Nicki Minaj

  School, Games, Honey

  Song: Itty Bitty Piggy, 2009

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• Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.

  Victoria Wood

  Funny, Sex, Couple

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• I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the terrain. . . . The horizon here is very, very stark, the sky is pitch black and the earth, or the moon rather, excuse me, is quite light, and the contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line.

  William Anders

  Sunset, Dark, Thinking

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• Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?

  Sepp Blatter

  Soccer, Football, Volleyball

  "Make-up and short shorts improving women's football, says Brazilian official". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

  Saul Bellow

  Definitions, Judgment, Excuse

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• Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

  Blaise Pascal

  Apology, Praying, Excuse

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

  Howie Carr

  Blood, Oil, Long

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• I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

  Joe Pesci

  Jobs, Wall, Work

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• At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.104, Crown Archetype

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• Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.

  Nalini Singh

  Agendas, Might, Firsts

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.154, Penguin

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Tolerance

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