All Quotes

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
‐‐ Elizabeth Taylor

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
‐‐ Tony Abbott

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
‐‐ Karyn Parsons

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes

The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The problem with Russia is not that it has laws restricting promotion of the gay lifestyle. The problem with Russia is that it has no laws that effectively constrain the strong or protect the weak.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
‐‐ David Lee Roth

The problem with shooting in Paris is, it's been shot to death. When you're in it, you already think you're in a movie, so how do you get away from that feeling, and give some frisson to the viewer?
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
‐‐ Mark Shields

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

The problem with stage magic is that it looks really good, but everyone knows there's a trick box.
‐‐ Justin Flom

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
‐‐ Stevie Ray Vaughan

The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.
‐‐ Tony Abbott

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
‐‐ David Gerrold

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
‐‐ Umberto Eco

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.
‐‐ Anne Fadiman

The problem with the mobile industry is that it deals with an intangible service which is largely similar across major players. Most consumers cannot tell the difference between Vodafone and Orange, or AT&T and Verizon in the U.S., beyond the colors and the logos. I suspect neither can the companies.
‐‐ Nirmalya Kumar

The problem with the Moodies is not what to play, it's what to leave out! That's always difficult. We stopped having support acts many years ago just because of that. We needed getting on to two hours; there's such a big catalog to call on.
‐‐ Justin Hayward

The problem with the professional political class is they make money regardless of who wins.
‐‐ Corey Lewandowski

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.
‐‐ Matthew Quick

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

The problem with the treadmill is I just don't know what to do in my head. You either stare at the mirror or concentrate on the TV. It makes me ill because I can't relax on a treadmill.
‐‐ Jamie Bamber

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
‐‐ Jonah Goldberg

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
‐‐ Humphrey Bogart

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.
‐‐ Tobias Hill

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
‐‐ James Frain