Gaffes Quotes

#1. Our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.

Alain De Botton

#2. Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy.

Ryan Holmes

#3. Rick Perry has made so many gaffes lately, it is hard to tell if he's running against President Obama or Joe Biden.

Jay Leno

#4. Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he's led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.

Mike Barnicle

#5. Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Jim Lehrer

#7. People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

Isaac Mizrahi

#8. I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Santiago Cabrera

#9. I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

Eddie Van Halen

#10. When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.

Melissa McCarthy

#11. In recent months, the emotional aspect has become as necessary to me as the physical. It amuses me, this strange quirk of mine. I want my little captive to love me, to care about me. I want to be more than just the monster of her nightmares.

Anna Zaires

#12. Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!
Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Aristophanes

#13. You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

Max Brooks

#14. What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn't be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran.

Wesley Clark

#15. But she knew this, - that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

Anthony Trollope

#16. I shake my head, turn from the window, clear my mind of thoughts of a hundred years away.

Haruki Murakami

#17. What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

Shawn Conners

#18. 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

Oliver Platt

#19. Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

Chelsea Clinton

#20. A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Anita Brookner

#21. If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

Mehmet Murat Ildan