top of page

Wrong Quotes

GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I'm rarely wrong."
Eileen Atkins
"I'm rarely wrong."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
29
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
Melvin Maddocks
"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
28
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."
Nicholas D. Kristof
"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
26
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"
James Thurber
"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
25
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
Peter Singer
"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
25
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
Ezra Pound
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
24
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it."
Leo Rosten
"If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
24
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win."
John Baldacci
"Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
23
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."
Otto Friedrich
"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
22
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong."
Mo Udall
"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
22
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."
Rick Allen
"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
21
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong."
John Oates
"I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
21
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow."
Tahereh Mafi
"He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
21
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone."
Judge Mills Lane
"I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
Patrick Marber
"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
18
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop."
Jack Levine
"I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
18
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!"
Mitch Hedberg
"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
18
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."
Fairuza Balk
"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
Martin C. Smith
"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer."
A. Whitney Brown
"A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
16
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."
Sophocles
"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
13
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
Confucius
"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
13
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
13
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
William James
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
11
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."
Susan Sontag
"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
10
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
Charles Bukowski
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
8
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong."
Sophocles
"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
8
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."
Thomas Fuller
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
5
bottom of page