Trouble Quotes

"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble"

John Keegan, Historian

"Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians"

Linda Chavez, Author

"I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble"

John Podesta, Lawyer

"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process"

Freddie Hubbard, Musician

"The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face"

Drew Carey, Actor

"When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people"

Ivor Novello, Musician

"For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better"

Alain Resnais, Director

"Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him"

Cher, Musician

"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them"

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Writer

"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it"

Ben Hecht, Writer

"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either"

Allan Sherman, Musician

"There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it"

Ben Hecht, Writer

"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

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