Trouble Quotes

"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them"

George Wald, Scientist

"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I've always had trouble with authority"

John Milius, Director

"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"Every writer I know has trouble writing"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own"

Katie Price, Model

"Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble"

Lita Ford, Musician

"One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act"

Bernard De Voto, Writer

"I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

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