Bane Quotes
On the recurring thing that just won't quit.
Writers dominate this set, naming their own particular bane — bad reviews after publication, or the synopsis a publisher demands before a novel even exists. More in the Author quotes.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.
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I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.
Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.
Age Quotes
The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction - my final book never ends up looking like the synopsis.
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
Artist Quotes
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.
I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
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One quote widens the lens across a whole life: study as childhood's bane, paper as the bane of anyone writing 'under oath.' For related struggles, see the Artist quotes.
