Trouble Quotations | Page 2

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

I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.

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

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

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

It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

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

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.

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking.

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine.

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

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.

I was always in trouble for chatting. My school reports all used to say, 'Donna is a very bright girl, but she must stop talking in class.' In the end, I made a career out of it.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

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.

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

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

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

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

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs.

What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.

Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

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.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

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

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

When I get bored, I get into trouble.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

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

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.