#incompetent

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#i #i wish #incompetent #pianos #put

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. ↗

— John Cleese

#being #bland #businessman #comes #cruel

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#head #him #hindsight #i #incompetent

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. ↗

— John Olver

#bush #choice #civilian #conduct #cost

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers. ↗

— Luke Ford

#fire #gut #had #i #incompetent

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#around #habit #having #i #incompetents

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#first #incompetent #lawyers #refuge

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. ↗

— Liam Fox

#economic #economic policies #ever #government #incompetent