#excuse

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous

I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight. ↗

— David Wells

#excuses #going #i #just #make

I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games. ↗

— David Wells

#certain #excuses #games #got #i

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#beings #death #excuse #fact #human

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#concept #days #delusions #depression #excuse

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#boring #boring people #everything #excuse #i

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#attribute #excuse #gave #i #never

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. ↗

— John Norman

#doing #excused #free #free man #girl

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#back #call #coping #could #drank

I'm not really in the excuse business. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#excuse #i #really