Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. Malcolm Mclaren artbenignfailure Change image and share on social
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. Toby Young befalldisasterfailure Change image and share on social
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think. Rhys Ifans criminaliseculturefailure Change image and share on social
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. Zbigniew Brzezinski demonstrationdramaticexperience Change image and share on social
The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed. Joe Strummer apathycompletefail share on social
It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much. Hans Jonas arrivechangedoom Change image and share on social
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. Alice James escapefailurelie Change image and share on social
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more. Laura Fraser backdeathfailure Change image and share on social
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. Errol Flynn 000failureleave Change image and share on social
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. Elon Musk failfailureinnovate Change image and share on social