Frustrating Things Quotes

• You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Running, Filters, Stereotype

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Jealousy, Hater

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

  Gail Collins

  People, Needs, Heroic

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• I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing.

  John Petrucci

  Fun, Marketing, Development

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.

  Kurt Vile

  Fall, People, Mad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing, Lazy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.

  Geena Davis

  Forever, Roles, Ratios

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.

  Torquil Campbell

  Thinking, Getting Older, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else. It's a very, very annoying and sort of frustrating thing and I just never wanted to go through it. I was very fortunate as I came up through the film business that I was able to insulate myself from that.

  George Lucas

  Frustration, Trying, Able

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Names, Tolerance

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

  Jason Katims

  Friday, Night, Light

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• There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

  Helen Cresswell

  Things In Life, Knowing, Frustrating

  Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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• I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, People, Mind

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• The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.

  Anna Kendrick

  Eye, Thinking, Red Flags

  "Toronto Q&A: Anna Kendrick on The Company You Keep, Civic Virtue, Weed, and Hip-Hop". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2012.

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• That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.

  Will Arnett

  Jobs, Struggle, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

  Marla Sokoloff

  People, One Day, Singers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

  Joe Elliott

  Beer, Play, Musician

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• I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

  Alan Parsons

  Sports, Song, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer.

  Martin Zweig

  Fashion, Climbing, People

  Martin Zweig (2009). “Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Country, Schedules, World

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