All Quotes

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
‐‐ Bill Cunningham

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
‐‐ Kent Beck

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
‐‐ Ed Markey

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
‐‐ Dee Hock

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.
‐‐ Paul Samuelson

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

The problem is not in the office: the problem is out there. Every day I go to the people, go to the street. I can ask the people what they want, what they need.
‐‐ Joko Widodo

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
‐‐ Vernor Vinge

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.
‐‐ Jim Talent

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.
‐‐ David Hewson

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
‐‐ Theodore Isaac Rubin

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad

The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
‐‐ Maelle Gavet

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
‐‐ B. B. King

The problem is that Abu Mazen signed an agreement with the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
‐‐ Fred Thompson

The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
‐‐ David Harsanyi

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
‐‐ Elon Musk

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.
‐‐ Richard Leakey

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
‐‐ Josh Fox

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!
‐‐ Phil McGraw

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
‐‐ Eberhard Weber

The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
‐‐ Rand Paul

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
‐‐ Eric Topol

The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
‐‐ John McCain

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.
‐‐ Josh Homme

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
‐‐ Daniel Dennett

The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

The problem is that perception is reality.
‐‐ John Rowland

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
‐‐ K'naan

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
‐‐ Sam Harris

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
‐‐ Martin Fleischmann

The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk