Language Mistake Quotes

Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?

I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, "Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!" And I said, "It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell 'chai-ay-oh.'" Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

I was saying on the air: "Victorino used the Twitter and he sent a twit to tell the fans he was coming." Well, the city went hysterical. The sky nearly fell down from laughter. I always thought that if you are going to use Twitter, it's going to be a twit. Why would it be a tweet?

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.

I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.'

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.