Trouble Quotes

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

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.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

Never wait for trouble.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

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

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

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

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.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

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.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.