Verbal Mistakes Quotes

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop and think about what I'm saying. I can see what's going to happen. I'm going to have to stop giving interviews because I'm always saying the wrong thing. I don't want that to happen.

I say a lot of things I shouldn't say.

Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

We all say things that we later regret.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.

I would want the going-back-in-time superpower, so I could take back the stuff that I say and gets me in trouble with my wife.

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

That's the problem in politics. One wrong word and it's over.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'

The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.

Sometimes I've said things that I shouldn't have.

I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.

One of my faults is a big mouth. I tend to say the wrong thing without meaning to.