Trouble Quotes

"It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing"

John Perkins, Economist

"I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening"

Brian De Palma, Director

"Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was"

William Scranton, Politician

"Never meet trouble half-way"

John Ray, Environmentalist

"I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right"

Howard Dean, Politician

"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function"

Brian Eno, Musician

"Prohibition has made nothing but trouble"

Al Capone, Criminal

"The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"Trouble shared is trouble halved"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention"

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent"

Tug McGraw, Athlete

"I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk"

Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor

"One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking"

Margaret Chase Smith, Politician

"You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble"

Mark Russell, Writer

"These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear"

Frank Iero, Musician

"Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

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