Drawback Quotes

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. (John Steinbeck)
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. View quote
Bill Griffith
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored"-"I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare-that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft. View quote
E. M. Forster
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever. View quote
Aaron Copland
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. View quote
Imre Kertész
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 cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. View quote
Glen Cook
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions. View quote
Bill Keller
Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. View quote
Frederick Buechner
As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald's movement is that it is not quite British enough. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback. (Cassandra Clare)
We all know that the besetting danger of Churches is formalism; the besetting danger of State action, of corporate action, is officialism and mechanism; and we all know that it is a drawback to many modern ideals that they rest upon materialism and a soulless secularism. View quote
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
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 is not time. View quote
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being. View quote
Jack McDevitt
fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment. View quote
Edna O'Brien
I think I will go back to mahogany [wood, as layer for his paintings], the only stable wood, together with old oak. But mahogany is so heavy. And it has another drawback, it blackens even through the primers if they are not thick enough and applied in several coats. View quote
Eugène Boudin
She understood at once, and with the courageous goodwill that sustained her, resigned herself to the fact: there was always a drawback. There had to be. Sometimes it was the lack of light, or a factory nearby, or not enough rooms. Here, it was a railroad. View quote
Gabrielle Roy
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. View quote
Allison Janney
The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other. View quote
Adrian Belew
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 the development of true artistic genius. (John Philip Sousa)
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 it is better to receive than to give. View quote
Joseph Epstein
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored"-"I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." View quote
E. M. Forster
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. View quote
David Mamet
The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov