“Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.” WorldEndsProblemMightEarthAsksHeavenBitsSaintSavingFaithfulGatesPeterNo ProblemStickySaint Peter Author:Benjamin Hoff
“There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.” StillsProblemBitsRolesTakenActresses Author:Joely Richardson
“There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.” LittlesHelpingProblemActionTogetherLyingThreeBitsCan DoEnvironmentMovementLittle BitEnvironmentalCollectivesTogether We CanCollective Action Author:Clay Shirky
“I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.” IfsShowsProblemBitsRecordsProductsPhonesProductionsFinishedOnlineYoutube Author:Wanda Sykes
“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.” DifferentProblemBitsMy OwnShareSpecialSorryTinyPsychologicalCentsConsistencyDiagnosisHomo SapiensBananasChimpanzeesGenome Book:Engleby: A Novel Source: Engleby: A Novel
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.” PeopleFeelingsProblemBitsMusicianMusicalCredibility Author:Phil Spector
“I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.” WorldWritingRealCharacterProblemGivenBitsMy OwnMagicOne ThingSolutionsSolveSettingSettingsReal WorldWorld Problems Author:Charles de Lint
“Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.” PeopleIfsWayGivingPersonsEndsProblemPainRememberBitsForgetHugeBirthGloryGloriousQuestsChildbirthAggravationInconvenienceForget The Pain Book:The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One Source: The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One
“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.” WritingTryingYearsLittlesStoriesProblemTurnsReadingFatherBitsFourSweetGrewTerribleLittle BitGrew UpSellsAwfulAgentsFour YearsOfferingPublishersInitialsWriting And ReadingVery Sweet Author:Anne Lamott
“When I played football was somewhat taboo for a girl. Today it's not as much of a problem. Not all girls want to play football but it's not a case of 'Oh my god she plays football, that's a bit odd.' It's a lot more accepted now.” WantPlayProblemTodayGirlBitsCasesFootballAcceptedOddTaboo Author:Hope Powell
“The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingKindEndsProblemSpiritualBitsModelsCriticalLibertarianWinnerOutcomesCrushSocialistCommitteesModerationUtopia Author:Jaron Lanier
“People think that by getting in touch with some being outside the body, it will solve their problems. This only creates problems. It won't help you a bit.” PeopleThinkingHelpingProblemBodyBitsBuddhismSolve Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you're a very career-oriented woman, sometimes you don't have as much time to go meet all kinds of guys. You're a little bit limited to the guys that work in your office. I think a lot of girls can relate to that problem.” ThinkingKindLittlesSometimesProblemGuyGirlBitsCareersOfficeLittle BitAll KindsRelate Author:Piper Perabo
“I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.” PeopleMeanLittlesI CanProblemBitsLaughingLittle BitSensesImpressionSense Of HumorEngagementAwkwardBecause I CanInteracting Author:Ana Gasteyer
“Being thankful for life itself is a way of making life better. When we look away from our problems, even for a short time, and generate joy in our hearts, we find that the world seems to change a bit.” WorldWayLooksHeartProblemSeemsJoyBitsBeing ThankfulShort TimeThankful For Life Author:John Harricharan
“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.” ThinkingWantLittlesFactsProblemLyingFallEasyBitsNaturalLinesDarkAudienceProductsHairReaderLittle BitHumorousBrandsConsumersPerceiveIronyBottlesInherentShelvesNo ProblemWant UShampooSubtextBeauty Products Author:Aaron Belz
“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.” PeopleMenHumansMeanLittlesHas BeensFactsHelpingStoriesProblemRealityFacesUsedBitsTermHoursRaceHealingFantasyMagicTeachingOughtLittle BitInstrumentsMedicineHuman RacePriestsIdleHelping PeopleUnbearableBards Author:Joan Aiken
“I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.” WantLoveLifeFeelsI CanImportantRealProblemTodayPainBitsNiceStagePlanetsBearsAreasYesterdayReal LifeWeatherAwfulIntimacyRestaurantsLove LifeDiscussingSmall Talk Author:Simon Amstell
“I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.” LittlesProblemSchoolGuyGirlBitsBlackTroubleCarAuthorityLoudGradesJacketsLeatherMotorcycleFingernailsAfter SchoolLeather Jackets Author:Melissa Marr
“Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.” IfsLittlesTwoProblemEarthBitsPartyRaceArmsLittle BitAmerican PoliticsArms Race Author:Hugh Sidey
“We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.” ReasonUseProblemBitsInterestCommonExampleReaderModelsAdvantageMathematicsCommon SenseConclusionEconomistNo ProblemAppreciatedPrecisionAnthropologists Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
“The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.” IfsLittlesRealProblemKidsBitsTaughtTrumpLittle BitPicksBullyReal Problems Author:Amy Walter
“Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.” WayMayMeanProblemValuesBitsTermClassTechnologyInformationLet MeProfoundWorkersProfitProductionsIdeologySymbolsDevelopingRoughCaptureProblem SolvingTechnologicalLimbsEleganceHintsInformation TechnologyProletariatAnalystsBourgeoisieGeneralizationLet Me GoKnowledge WorkersNew Class Author:Steven Weber
“Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.” TryingLittlesProblemWinningBitsFindingsLittle BitStrategyCompetitors Author:Jamais Cascio
“God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a problem because earlier today during a debate in New Hampshire, he bit off Joe Lieberman's ear.” ThinkingShouldMayProblemTodayLastsBitsEarsDebateCriticizeDeanHampshireNew Hampshire Author:David Letterman
“That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.” PeopleWantLittlesHas BeensWarProblemEasyBitsPeaceEconomicLittle BitMessagesArenaTricky Author:Vin Weber
“I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.” ThinkingWorldProblemFoundSocialBitsRealizingTeacherInfluencePositionGrewLuckyGrew UpImpactSocial Capital Author:Matt Damon
“There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.” WorldGivingLittlesRealProblemSeemsKidsFilmCertainCultureSpeakSocialGrowsBitsGrowing UpThis WorldDiversityLittle BitDistanceGenreHeritageSuperheroReal Problems Author:Djimon Hounsou
“I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.” ChildrenI CanProblemMotherBitsImagineDesperateImagine That Author:Ginnifer Goodwin