Quotes About Mistake

And supposing the Coroner's jury returns a verdict of Wilful Murder against Alfred Inglethorp. What becomes of your theories, then?" "They would not be shaken because twelve stupid men had happened to make a mistake!

We passed a very pleasant evening, though I made the slight mistake of taking Poirot to a crook play. There is one piece of advice I offer to all my readers. Never take a soldier to a military play, a sailor to a naval play, a Scotsman to a Scottish play, a detective to a thriller -- and an actor to any play whatsoever! The shower of destructive criticism in each case is somewhat devastating.

he bounced a peach on the floor to show how hard it was—only it wasn't quite as hard as he thought and it squashed.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it.

Well, you know, bigamy is bigamy.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it." -- Cynthia Murdoch

From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr Blore and said with immense dignity: 'I'm talking to you, young man. The day of judgment is very close at hand.' Subsiding on to his seat Mr Blore thought to himself: He's nearer the day of judgment than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong…

I know, my dear, that isn't what you expected when I began this story. It wasn't what I expected either. But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

But I was beginning to see how she must have thought she was doing something good for us, even though she was wrong.

it's only a failure who would kill!

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?" "Yes, stupid me, I forgot.

I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

I made the mistake of going to a barber who was not from Philly, and let's just say, I would never do that again.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

The picture was of me, and I sent it.

If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!

I once bought an ill-advised half cashmere, half camel hair jumper for £800, then ruined it by spilling a pint of Guinness all over it.