Quotes About Misspeaking

#1. I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.

Jeffrey McDaniel

#2. Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

Alain De Botton

#3. The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Alain De Botton

#4. Near the top of any girl's list of dumb things to do would be, 'Take a walk by yourself late at night.

Marsha Qualey

#5. It's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.

Owen Gingerich

#6. He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.

Andrew Strauss

#7. Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.

Anthony Trollope

#8. Fear can be created quickly; trust can't.

Ed Catmull

#9. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia.

Sarah Palin

#10. Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

Thomas Sowell

#11. And therefore take good heed unto time, how that thou dispendest it: for nothing is more precious than time. In one little time, as little as it is, may heaven be won and lost.

James Walsh

#12. But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies.

Sarah Palin

#13. Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career.

BBC

#14. Earth to Dexter, Astor said, and I realized that I still stood in front of them frozen in my unlikely, foolish openmouthed pose like a pedantic zombie.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.

Sarah Palin

#16. The night is a strawberry.

Louise Penny