"The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor." - Hugh GrantTweet
"I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid." - Amy SedarisTweet
"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." - Jack KerouacTweet
"And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament." - Tom A. WatsonTweet
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston ChurchillTweet
"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure." - Sidney HookTweet
"The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings." - Millicent FawcettTweet
"I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real." - China MievilleTweet