Top 500 Trouble Quotes

In this post, you will find great Trouble Quotes from famous people, such as Al Sharpton, Nellie Bly, Robert Collier, Nick Park, Jemima Kirke. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then w

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.
I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.
I’ve never been one to just do what I’m told. I don’t say that necessarily with pride, it’s just something that has gotten me in trouble before.
A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.
People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What’s happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.
I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.
Daniel Johnston
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Getting trouble is always a problem when you are young and in a soap.
You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you’re getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn’t listen to me and he adopts this child.
Oliver Platt
The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn’t there. When you hesitate, usually you’re in trouble.
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
John Hanning Speke
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, ‘Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.’
Len Goodman
I think I was maybe a ned. I don’t know. I had a trakkie, a cap and got into trouble when I was younger and I don’t remember other neds round about me, so I suppose I must have been one. But a thinking ned, an intelligent ned.
I’ve had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me… I learned my lesson.
Aaron Carter
The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Ty Cobb
It’s been a pattern in my life – when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.
Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
I always beat the sun up in the morning. It’s the secret to why I’m double trouble.
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Progress often masquerades as trouble.
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell
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.
Tim Wakefield
Look at the forces against me. They don’t want me out. They’re afraid I’ll cause trouble if I get out.
I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don’t, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.
Jason Wiles
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of con

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
Henry Walter Bates
Psychoanalysts believe that the only ‘normal’ people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
A. J. P. Taylor
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.
I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn’t do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline – I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
Hal Holbrook
That’s what’s so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time’s right.
Jonathan Kellerman
If I had been living through the ’80s, I probably would’ve gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.
My grandma told me, don’t get into trouble. I know how hard she worked to take care of her own nine kids and my mama‘s three. And I just never wanted to hurt her. I never wanted to do something that would embarrass her.
This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It’s here we have the most trouble out of them.
Joe Jackson
I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn’t wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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.
It is every parent’s nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best to guide young people, but as adults, they make their own choices and live with the consequences of those decisions.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
What should be covered must be covered. Women should not trouble others by wearing jeans.
K. J. Yesudas
I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it’s because we have trouble getting voice talent.
I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
Anzia Yezierska
The wholeAmerican Idol‘ way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I’d even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
Marian McPartland
Nuclear‘ is nothing but trouble. Do you say ‘new-clear’ or do you say ‘nuke-you-ler’? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don’t have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin’ out loud.
I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
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.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I’m still standing.
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn’t want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
Margaret Chase Smith
One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.
Joe Davis
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe
I’m not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don’t grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don’t anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don’t get our civility back, we’re in trouble.
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Barbara Deming
We’ve got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling… It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They’re fans who’ve gotten themselves shops.
I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
I have trouble describing my own style, since it’s sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.
Ruth Benedict
You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you’re in trouble.
Mark Russell
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
I’m trouble, but in a good way.
People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized – not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience.
Kevin Conroy
Never meet trouble half-way.
John Ray
If you don’t know about pain and trouble, you’re in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Once you start writing a character visually, you’re in trouble.
As a child, I’ve always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
I don’t believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you’re in serious trouble.
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.
George Miller
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
Tenzing Norgay
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, a

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.
Dean Norris
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
When I was saying, ‘White people go to hell,’ I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, ‘Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,’ then you suddenly become unreasonable.
The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.
Lisa understands me. I’m very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I’ve been kind of shy – opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.
Whenever someone comes up to me and says, ‘I’m having trouble shopping.’ I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
Richard Krajicek
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
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.
Judy Davis
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
My last divorce was in ’68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn’t work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn’t recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.
The trouble with anyone when they’re unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don’t know what to do about is that they can’t see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn’t there anymore, you have to do something about it.
Penelope Wilton
If I spend all of my day in the details as a CEO of a company like Wal-Mart, I think it would be trouble, because I wouldn’t really be prepared to speak to the big issues that the country or the world should face.
Mike Duke
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Ian Fleming
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she’s had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
In the ’80s and ’90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
Howard Baker
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
Max Nordau
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.
I’m a nice guy, but I like to get into 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.
Leon Battista Alberti
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature… In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It’s only after it’s gone, you’d realize that you missed it.
If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they’re in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they’re horrible and I hate them. I’m more of a dinner party guy.
Simon Bird
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore
I think Facebook‘s dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook… I’d rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
Zara Phillips
The most common trouble with advertising is that it tri

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
James Randolph Adams
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
I’m sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there’s the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone’s grass is greener.
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.
Tom Freston
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.
Bad things happen for multiple reasons, and only the Holy Spirit can reveal the source of trouble in any particular situation.
I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, ‘Judy, we need a title.’
When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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.
I’ve been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don’t care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.
Andrew Dice Clay
There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn’t go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.
Most men, even egotistic actors, always shy away from dancing with me. Other dancers report the same trouble. They probably figure that I would be mentally comparing them with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. So I go to parties and usually just sit – unless George Burns is there – and then I have a ball.
The industry’s much quicker. The turnover with models – I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
Keep your head on the ball. You’ve got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball’s going, and they haven‘t even hit it yet.
Mike Trout
I don’t have writer’s block, really. I do have times when I can’t get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don’t write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone – the whole point of view.
When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.
When I go see a basketball game, I’m always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
I’m shy, but I’m not clinically shy. I don’t have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
Samantha Bee
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.
Caleb Carr
But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
Oliver Reed
There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem… the project became classified. I couldn’t work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.
Gordon Gould
I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn’t easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.
I was obsessive-compulsive, and I probably had a little splash of Asperger’s in there, but in those days, in 1953, you were just a difficult kid. Attention deficit didn’t even exist back then. I really had trouble completing tasks – I couldn’t sit still.
The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
Charles Erwin Wilson
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world’s only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
Steve Forbes
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
Al Capone
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Sometimes you have trouble because someone ‘likes‘ your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.
Eugene Chadbourne
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
My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.
I thought it was terrible. I don’t know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody could ever say different. Sometimes, that got him into a lot of trouble. But after he died and they cut his head off, that made me sick.
Curt Gowdy
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
Seymour Cray
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.
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.
Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve – a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
Carol Gilligan
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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.
I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.
Nicky Hilton
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
David Lloyd George
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
I am interested in a lot of things – not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what’s going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don’t have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don’t sit and vegetate.
In the States, I get recognised all the time. I met a fan once who had a tattoo of my face on his arm. I can see how some people get carried away with it, but I don’t have trouble staying grounded.
I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
I looked back on the roaring Twenties – with its jazz, ‘Great Gatsby,’ and the pre-Code films – as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.
I’ve learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn’t do anybody any good.
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it’s all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in ‘Star’ magazine, which is probably why I didn’t cause any trouble worth mentioning.
It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.
If you know you can do it – if you can already chart every day in your future – then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble

I once said, ‘We will bury you,’ and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev
When I was a kid and I’d be in trouble. I’d ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn’t talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn’t. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky
I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don’t now, and I feel much better!
Donald Fagen
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you’re dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that’s a concern no matter what kind of movie you’re dealing with.
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you’re constantly trying to figure out, ‘Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?’ It’s like trying to defuse a bomb.
When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
Hattie McDaniel
I loved the army, but it didn’t really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma‘s boy.
I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn’t help the healing process.
Freddie Hubbard
I always have shoe trouble.
Jourdan Dunn
The turnover with models – I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
Don’t do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.
Stephen Lawrence
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.
That’s the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
Pat Sajak
I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.
Amelia Earhart
I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It’s a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they’re losing money.
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.
If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.
Chad Everett
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn’t about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
When I was growing up in my area, the worst problem for us was we never had a purpose, I’d just be looking for stuff to do, I would be bored, that’s how we would get into trouble.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things.
I’ve had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don’t know if it’s because I’m not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.
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.
Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
I’ve never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.
Financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble, I’ve seen it all. But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow.
Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat t

Les Pauls work out real well for me because I’ll beat the hell out of them and they’ll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don’t even notice.
Sarah Vaughan
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world – people who will cause trouble if the government doesn’t restrain them.
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!
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.
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.
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.
Robert Goulet
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and – I can’t remember what the third thing is.
Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham – just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I’m mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
Alexander Hanson
I always thought my best album was ‘Trouble in Paradise.’ I was the happiest with that one.
Listen to the lyrics – we’re singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
Buddy Guy
My father’s money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.
If you’ve gotta tell on your own people to get yourself out of trouble, you’re a snitch.
Pimp C
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
I’m in trouble because I’m normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don’t like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
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.
And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Automation is great for profits, but it’s a real potential trouble area for society.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger’s syndrome.
It was always inevitable that if you get serious troubl

It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody’s inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.
Max Hastings
The first time I flew after September 11, I honestly was a little paranoid. As I was going to the metal detector, I was looking at my duffel bag, and I’m like, ‘Do I have anything that’s like a weapon?’ I was really paranoid they were gonna find something sharp, and I was gonna get in trouble.
When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn’t focused on school – I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
Proverbs are all very fine when there’s nothing to worry you, but when you’re in real trouble, they’re not a bit of help.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?
People used to come knocking on my door saying, ‘Your trouble is that you’re a sex symbol who doesn’t do enough sexy things.’ I’d say to myself, ‘You think that if you pressure me I’ll fold.’ But if I did it, all it would mean is that I sold out.
I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.
In all cities, the better classes – the business men – are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
Thomas Nelson Page
I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
It’s almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There’s only so much trouble I can get in.
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.
I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.
Clifford Irving
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
Wyndham Lewis
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.
Kenneth Grahame
Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of idle machines and empty seats. When the crisis of the pandemic gets over and it is safe for all of us to go back to that experience we must, in hordes.
The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
Charles Erwin Wilson
I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.
Bad things happen for multiple reasons, and only the Holy Spirit can reveal the source of trouble in any particular situation.
I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It’s the seven inches between my ears that’s bent.
Tug McGraw
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.
When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala – or ‘Trouble Woman.’ It means ‘I give you hell.’ But I don’t care what names they call me. I’m a fighter; I’m very focused on what I’m doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class.
Ashnikko
All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull
The trouble with righting some wrongs is that it makes the remaining ones seem even more unbearable.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making troub

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
When you get too big a majority, you’re immediately in trouble.’
Sam Rayburn
If you ever watchedHercules,’ you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.
Kevin Sorbo
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.
When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.
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.
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don’t agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn’t.
The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, ‘Come on, let’s go,’ I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don’t do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I’d be in some serious trouble.
Ian Millar
I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn’t always where you want to use it, and it isn’t always when you want to use it.
Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
When I get bored, I get into trouble.
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.
I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
I think nowadays it’s so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
Through danger safety comes – through trouble rest.
John Marston
If you take the ’70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.
Glynn Turman
English is my first language, but when I started shooting for ‘Definition of Fear,’ I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.
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.
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
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.
Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
I got myself into trouble. I was drinking and partying a lot and it caught up with me.
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren’t meeting either.
Allan Sherman
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
Arnold H. Glasow
The target of preventive war must have several characte

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you’re heading in the wrong direction.
When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we’re in trouble.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
I’m not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.
Lita Ford
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.
Never wait for trouble.
Chuck Yeager
I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
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.
Terence Stamp
One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that’s something I figured out pretty early on.
There’s no such thing as a writer’s block. If you’re having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Natalie Goldberg
Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one.
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we’ve made a hero of the rebel, and it’s more heroic to speak up.
Eddie Campbell
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don’t weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.
I think any time people behave in a way that’s truly them, then they’ll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That’s the fundamental thing.
I have enough trouble just speaking normal Australian. On ‘Vikings,’ we had a great vocal coach who helped make all of us sound the same. But I’m very bad at accents, to be honest.
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 trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The royal family‘s existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major’s rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They’re fine opening hospitals. It’s when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is th

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnett
That’s the trouble with the women’s game. Those women think they’re men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They’d be better off if they’d played like women.
Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.
Martin Mull
Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn’t have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
Steve Kanaly
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
I have no idea who coined the term ‘the New Journalism,’ or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with ‘new’ in it is just begging for trouble, of course.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
I’ve had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn’t a Christian.
Victoria Jackson
I don’t chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I’d be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.
Ernest Borgnine
No one wants to be picked at. At the end of the day, we’re all human beings with feelings and emotions. Nobody wants to be critiqued and picked apart, but it’s the nature of the business. It comes with the territory. For me, if they’re not talking about you, that’s where you can run into some trouble.
Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn’t matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with the jokes is that once they’re written, I know how they’re supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I’m more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.
April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They’ll give you the same advice that they’ve given hundreds of corporations – taxes are for douche bags.
Ed Helms
When man decides he can control nature, he’s in deep trouble.
There’s only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that’s the box office. The obsession with box office doesn’t annoy me. It’s the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you’re in trouble.
This business of fame – when people ask me what it was like growing up in this famous family, I say, ‘When you take it seriously you’re in a lot of trouble.’
I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.
Melissa Marr
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.
Brian Molko
The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
Barry McGuigan
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
I don’t believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I’ve been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.
Beth Orton
I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
There’s only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin’ it.
When things could’ve gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we’d be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you’re kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
Daniel Cudmore
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.
Franklin Pierce Adams
I think most people have a general sense that when you’re released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that’s true only for a relative few.
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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!
Roland Barthes
The principles of living greatly include the capacity t

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you’re in big trouble if you’re borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We’ve got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
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.
There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.
If you don’t cast well, you can be in real trouble.
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.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
Maureen Reagan
If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because – not that I wouldn’t be able to step up to it – but I wouldn’t love it. I wouldn’t want to be that person; that wouldn’t be my natural thing.
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
I don’t want to drive the markets crazy. I don’t want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.
We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
David Ruffin
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.
Joko Beck
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out.
Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius
I have trouble voicing my thoughts… I can’t communicate very well that way.
Ayumi Hamasaki
I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard DeVoto
What people have trouble getting their head around is the idea that a celebrity, somebody whom they admire, somebody who seems to have everything, would even be depressed.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I’ve known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology.
Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has ch

Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has changed the way men think, but the trouble is, it hasn’t changed the attitudes of babies at all.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a period of time, I think people now realise that most of the things I say are in jest.
It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the past is not just that it’s behind us, it’s that it is not even over yet.
Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I’m just an actor, that’s nothing special. But I’m not into anything bad. Just blackjack.
Frankie Muniz
I’m kinda secretive, and I can’t even say secretive because of my son. He’s the type, like, he doesn’t let his friends know who his mom is or his stepdad. He doesn’t like me going to his school. If he gets into trouble at school, he’s, like, dying. He’s very low-key with it. He’s always been like that since he was born.
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I’m having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
Ellen Goodman
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
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
That’s the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they’d be like, ‘Yeah, big deal. I’d eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you’re pulling down.’
There’s too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.
Russell Johnson
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn’t do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
I have no trouble sleeping.
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
Betty Dodson
A reporter asked recently, ‘What keeps you up at night?’ I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don’t have to count sheep. I count all the states I’m glad I’m not the governor of.
Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn’t say in 1994 or 2002, I don’t think most people really care.
What I find really attractive is something that’s going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you’ve just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, ‘What have I done?’
As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Dennis Potter
If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn’t understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.
Timothy Radcliffe
I grew up in the ’50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, ‘Just bite your tongu;, don’t cause any problems.’ My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.
It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
Beth Henley
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is l

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.
My trouble is I talk first and think later.
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yesmerely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
Broderick Crawford
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers‘ own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
I’m having trouble understanding why there hasn’t been further progress on CalgaryNext.
The analogy I use is that ‘World of Warcraft‘ is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don’t really want to interact with them; you just want to know you’re part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you’ll know someone else is there.
John Romero
When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.
If you don’t have your gameplan right, as a big man against a little man, you are in trouble.
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you’ve already finished it.
Franklin P. Jones
I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I’m like, ‘I’m going to get in trouble.’
I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.
It’s not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you’re telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you’re in trouble.
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call ‘wild.’
I’m naturally a nice person. I’m not trying to have any problems with people. I’m done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Imogene Coca
The trouble when you’re doing something illegal is that you know what you’re doing. You’re lying to your parents, you’re lying to your kids. The only person you can’t lie to is yourself.
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
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.
Robbie Keane
The parent knows instinctively that if they’re working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
When I was growing up, and other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys. My love of the outdoors kept me solid.
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It’s terrible.
My kids are exhausted every day, and I keep them that way. It’s gym, ice, homework. They’re too tired to get in trouble.
Nelson Peltz
That’s the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You’re left, stuck, in the studio. And that’s a shame. You’re making a movie. You don’t want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie – to move.
I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
Carol W. Greider
Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but the

Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can’t figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.
I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don’t have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I’ve never looked back.
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
Bill Joy
The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us.
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.
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they’ll generally stay out of trouble.
Steve Chabot
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it’s the enemy of comedy. It’s the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.
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.
I was an introvert really. I spent a lot of time in the crib reading books. Staying out of trouble.
You know, I’d like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can’t do that. I can’t find it in myself to do it.
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.
Don’t get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that’s where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don’t want that.
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
I do have trouble with titles.
When we label anyone ‘bad’, we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
The trouble with talking about acting is that it’s like sex. It’s enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
I don’t think it makes sense to set high goals about how my ideal woman should be. It is like calling for trouble. That would make one close-minded and not open to meeting different kinds of people.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don’t give the students an idea of what’s happening.
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I’m out of that range, I’m in 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.
I’m happy with my career and I’m not going to have the trouble of being typecast.
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Sid Caesar
There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.
I liked being a minor because you can’t get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
It would be nice to have radio support, not that we’ve ever had that much trouble with it.
Zac Hanson
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from d

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble – some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves – but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
When you have a good script you’re almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.