Drawback Quotes

35 quotes by 35 authors

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath.… — Truman Capote
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature… — Herbert Turnbull
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel… — Joseph Epstein
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt… — Max Euwe
The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat. — Ray Milland
San Francisco has only one drawbackâ€”â€˜tis hard to leave. — Rudyard Kipling
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites,… — Paul Feyerabend
One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as… — Terry Pratchett
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. — Bill Griffith
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. — Elizabeth Taylor
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to… — John Philip Sousa
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control… — Ida Tarbell
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,… — Matthew Yglesias
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not… — Christopher Fry
God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and… — Johannes Tauler
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to… — Soong May-ling
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. — Allison Janney
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions. — Bill Keller
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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