Notoriously Difficult Quotes

#1. Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Mo Ibrahim

#2. It didn't have to be a newfound respect for the craft, I knew that it's notoriously difficult and frightens a lot of people off. I don't think anyone knows quite who to attribute it to, but the dying actor who says: "dying is easy, comedy is hard." I hear it.

Colin Firth

#3. -they were still practicing the fiendishly difficult pattern at the end of the act where the diagonal lines of swans cross over and dissolve to form three groups: unequal groups, since the number seventeen is notoriously difficult to divide by three.

Eva Ibbotson

#4. Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans have always wanted to categorize them. In that way, we think we can have more control over them.

Brian Froud

#5. Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

Tim Kaine

#6. Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as you and your father are."
"Yes, and he's also the king
that makes our relationship impossible.

Lynn Austin

#7. Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Clement Freud

#8. Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.

Bruno Maag

#9. Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.

Walter J. Phillips

#10. Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Edward St. Aubyn

#11. It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

Francis Crick

#12. Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Alan Greenspan

#13. Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me.

Rose George

#14. Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

Carolyn Murphy

#15. Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

Confucius

#16. The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.

Peter Thiel

#17. Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#18. The sin of man was placed on a sinless Savior. 2 Cor. 5:21

John Paul Warren

#19. I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

Peter Webber