Trouble Quotes

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.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

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.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

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

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

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.