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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. -- Camille Claudel
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. -- Jimi Hendrix
And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself. -- Murray Walker
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. -- Dennis Miller
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. -- Jeanne Calment
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical. -- William E. Geist
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. -- Derrick Jensen
Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits - but no. -- Pope Francis
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. -- C. S. Lewis
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together -- Edmund White
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen. -- Elton John
Pray excuse me. I cannot take it. -- Jefferson Davis
Now if you'll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me. -- Rachel Vincent
Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening? -- Melina Marchetta
I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly! -- Nicki Minaj
I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if youâ??ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers. -- Bill Maher
Allyson Smith reminds me of a younger, prettier, funnier me. Now if you'll excuse me, the ladies from my bridge club have arrived. -- Stewart Francis
If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters. -- David Walton
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. -- Bill Vaughan
Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them. -- William Shenstone
The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward. -- Joe Namath
You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.' -- Christina Ricci
The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope -- an ideology of hate -- excuse me --with an ideology of hope. -- George W. Bush
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous -- Leo Tolstoy
I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable. -- Veronica Roth
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. -- Edmund White
You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in. -- J. K. Rowling
We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the Arab League, which we happen to support the position they're taking. -- Joe Biden
The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time. -- Tom Lehrer
O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me. From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me. My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed. -- Busiri
It's a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you're cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread. -- Edward M Hays
The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable. It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang. Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough or receiving in us just the right answer. You, the Staggering Answer -- Buddy Wakefield
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other. -- Clarence Darrow
If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't ... -- Naftali Bennett
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life. -- Edward M Hays
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. -- Jimmy Cannon
Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town. -- John Mulaney
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said. -- Richard Brautigan
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time. -- Tom Petty
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. -- Camille Claudel
None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for. -- Joe Namath
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. -- David E. Kelley
If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave. -- Paul Gascoigne
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons. -- Mike Dirnt
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. -- Robert Gottlieb
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. -- Vivienne Westwood
I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it. -- Tahar Rahim
I'm not a big fan of working out. Living in Los Angeles makes it much easier for me; I don't ever have an excuse not to be outside. -- Dylan Penn
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Excuse me please, one more drink Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think She broke my heart, my grace is gone One more drink and I'll move on. -- Dave Matthews
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?' -- Anthony Holden
Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying. -- Cassandra Clare
We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk? -- Daniel Tosh
Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane] -- J.R. Ward
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. -- Oprah Winfrey
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? -- Milton Friedman
I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake. -- Louie Gohmert
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship. -- Vince Neil
I had one job that was kind of cop-like. One summer I did security at a miniature golf course. Just standing out in the sun all day, Hey, hey, excuse me sir. Get your putter out of the whale's ass. Come on, this is a place of miniature business. This is not a playground even though it looks like a playground. -- Dane Cook
Excuse me? I'm alive too. -- James Patterson
Excuse me, scary people. (Alix) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Excuse me while I go bleach my face. -- Elle Casey
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me. -- Saul Bellow
Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable. -- Harry Behn
You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul? -- J. K. Rowling
I'm not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living. -- Flora Rheta Schreiber
Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening. -- Joel Kinnaman
Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers. -- Roderick Haig-Brown
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime -- Jimmy Cannon
Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did. -- Julia Quinn
Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me. -- Bobby Fischer
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. -- Stephen Schwartz
Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me? -- Rick Riordan
Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. -- Blaise Pascal
Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me. -- Rick Riordan
Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious. -- Keith Senior
Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you. -- Robert M. Drake
For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about. -- David Hurn
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world. -- Graciela Iturbide
I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done. -- Rick Riordan
Excuse me you're a hell of a guy You know I really got a thing for American guys -- Nicki Minaj
Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself. -- Jewel
[...]you know what they say about messengers, right"? Excuse me?" Too much bad news will get you shot."[...] -- J.R. Ward
Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me. -- Tamora Pierce
Your pants are unseasonably bitch. I beg your pardon. Excuse me, madam, but you are sitting on my erection. -- Jarod Kintz
Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist! -- Rick Riordan
Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane -- Nicki Minaj
Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me. -- Conor Oberst
Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned?" Leo asked. "But you're a girl." "You're a girl," said the girl. "Excuse me? -- Rick Riordan
It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON- -- Eoin Colfer
Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes. -- Ne-Yo
Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue? -- Carrie Harris
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing. -- George Bernard Shaw
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so. -- Dorothy Parker
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons -- Mike Dirnt
Excuse me, madam, but may I rub my erection up against your buttocks, because I mistakenly took Viagra thinking it was Vitamin C? -- Jarod Kintz
Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject. -- Rachel Caine
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. -- Patricia A. McKillip
Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail. -- Ian Livingstone
Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss? -- Eoin Colfer
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. -- Susan Meiselas
I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first." "Excuse me if entertaining you isn't at the top of my agenda. -- Nalini Singh
I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible. -- Max Lucado
Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff -- Bob Marley
I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity. -- Julie Anne Peters
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again. -- Charles de Lint
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I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. -- Brendan Fehr
You could have said "?Excuse me.' (Zarek) I'm not talking to you. (Astrid) Love you, too, babe. (Zarek) You really are an animal, aren't you? (Astrid) Woof, woof. (Zarek) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A bird was shot. I suspect fowl play. The next man to be shot is the man who wrote that pun. Excuse me while I load my gun and shoot myself. -- Jarod Kintz

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