Trouble Quotes - Page 28

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

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Film, Bigs

  Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Character, Eight, Feelings

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• I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

  Trygve Lie

  Disappointment, Past, Rivers

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• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  Lamorne Morris

  Mother, Hero, Mean

  "Out to Lunch With: Lamorne Morris, Who Spills on His Bad Church Behavior and Worst Date Ever" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

  Bret Michaels

  Errors, Rocks, People

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• 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.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Humble, Path

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I've never been in trouble with the police.

  Ricky Williams

  Police

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• Prayer Declaration I will trust in the covering of Your wings, and in the shadow of Your wings I will trust. Be my defense and refuge in times of trouble. I will sing of Your strength. In the morning I will sing of Your love, for You are my fortress. You are my strength. I sing praise to You, for on You I can rely.

  John Eckhardt

  Morning, Prayer, Wings

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• I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.

  Matthew Perry

  School, Kids, Joking Around

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• You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

  Rod Stewart

  Girl, Knows

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• Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible
   its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but
   the Enchantress of Numbers.

  Ada Lovelace

  Numbers, World, Forget

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• We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

  Katherine Paterson

  Faces, Dealing With Death, Dies

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• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Iran, Has Beens

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.

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• As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

  T. B. Joshua

  Struggle, Destiny, Overcoming

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• I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

  Bobby Seale

  America, Musician, Add

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• God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

  Jackie Pullinger

  Heart, Feet, Want

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• Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

  Amy Neftzger

  Real, Stories, Recognizing

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.311, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Together, Musician, Energy

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• To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

  Randal Marlin

  Powerful, Mistake, Winning

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.14, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Sports, Fighting, Law

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• If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Finance, Knows, Ifs

  "What Dijsselbloem Really Said: Full 'On The Record' Transcript". Interview with Tyler Durden and Luke Baker, www.zerohedge.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

  Peter Hollingworth

  School, Fields, Achiever

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• Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.

  Will Hermes

  Hero, Dark, Voice

  "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.

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