All Quotes

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.
‐‐ Martin Parr

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
‐‐ Martin Mull

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
‐‐ Malcolm Muggeridge

The trouble with law is lawyers.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
‐‐ Doug Larson

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
‐‐ John Barrymore

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
‐‐ Ruth Benedict

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
‐‐ Calvin Harris

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
‐‐ Billy Sunday

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
‐‐ Imogene Coca

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
‐‐ Edith Sitwell

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
‐‐ George Wald

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
‐‐ Charlton Heston

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.
‐‐ Brian Cox

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
‐‐ Bruce Cockburn

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
‐‐ Herbert V. Prochnow

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
‐‐ Laura Ingalls Wilder

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
‐‐ Louis Kronenberger

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
‐‐ Alice Walker

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
‐‐ Paul Valery

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
‐‐ Josh Billings

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
‐‐ David Bailey

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
‐‐ Yousuf Karsh

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
‐‐ Seymour Cray

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
‐‐ Bernard DeVoto

The trouble with records is that they're too short.
‐‐ Mahalia Jackson

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
‐‐ Bill Shankly

The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
‐‐ Abe Lemons

The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
‐‐ Kate O'Mara

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
‐‐ Ken Kesey

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
‐‐ Paul Bettany

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
‐‐ Ann Landers

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
‐‐ Sid Caesar

The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
‐‐ Eli Wallach

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
‐‐ Gary Barlow

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it.
‐‐ Arnold H. Glasow

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
‐‐ Arthur Scargill

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
‐‐ Peter Davison