I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting ‘Sense and Sensibility.’ It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, ‘I should be doing that. They didn’t even ask me.’ Some mistake, surely. – Andrew Davies
Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped. – Bob Woodward
I think it’s always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you’re able to do. – Andrew Wyatt
I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it. – Ayman Odeh
It is very rare that he makes a mistake, and I feel just privileged to have done what I have with him. There will never be another Valegro. – Charlotte Dujardin
If I’d been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they’ve done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren’t there. That’s a total mistake. – Boris Johnson
A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look. – Candice Olson
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. – Dale Turner
When the penalty for a policeman’s mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. – Gary Bauer
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President. – Nelson Mandela
The world is ending, make no mistake. It’s coming to an end. This can’t go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall. – Frank Dillane
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. – Paulo Coelho
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it’s nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it. – Peter Hook
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. – Daisy Bates
The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers. – Matt Mullenweg
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. – Cat Power
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. – George Bernard Shaw
I say ‘incantation’ a lot, when what I really mean ‘incarnation.’ It’s a programmed mistake. – Michael Carbonaro
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake. – Elliot Richardson
Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake. – David Nalbandian
But if there’s an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we’ve made a terrible mistake. – Pat Robertson
The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn’t get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King’s guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake. – Gerry Cooney
Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible. – Claudia Schiffer
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. – Douglas Adams
