Trouble Quotes

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Time, Woman, Young

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

Life, Work, Heart

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Herbert Prochnow

Work, Hard, Disguised

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

Family, Career, Older

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

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.
Quincy Jones

Everything, Brother, Crime

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
Lynda Barry

Whole, House, Imagine

Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
Bo Jackson

Kids, Boy, Momma

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

Real, Keep, Stage

I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.
Howard Dean

Heart, Words, Sometimes

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!
Leslie Nielsen

Funny, Family, Father

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.
David Bohm

Crazy, Saying, Thought

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.
Mary Astell

Truth, Knowledge, Woman

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Barbara Walters

Someone, Woman, She

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.
Lucinda Williams

Writing, Real, Free

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.
Diane Lane

Same, Others, Acting

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong

Ignorance, Accept, Almost

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.
Mercedes McCambridge

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Sid Caesar

Good, Story, Telling

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.
John Grisham

Family, Fun, Everything

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
Oliver Kahn

Leave, English, Soon

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
Robert Rauschenberg

Else, Needs, Rent

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.
Jet Li

Good, Wife, Bad

I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Sure, Ready, Save

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

Eyes, Read, Scripts

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.
Gail Simmons

Through, Before, Big

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
Patti LaBelle

Sing, Front, Decided

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
Evo Morales

Change, Finance, Conscience

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.
Piers Anthony

Good, Hope, Waiting

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.
Branford Marsalis

Life, Perfect, Jazz

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