Trouble Quotes

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

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

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.

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.

What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of the matter is, my whole family is doing better.

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

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

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

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

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

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.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

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.

It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

I do have trouble with titles.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.