Trouble Quotes - Page 32

• In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

  Anna Chlumsky

  Coffee, Thinking, Order

  "‘Veep’ Star Anna Chlumsky Talks TV Politics, Working With Julia Louis-Dreyfus And Still Being ‘My Girl’". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Teacher, Made, Found

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• When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

  Marcel Carne

  Two, Years, Understanding

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• 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?

  Peter Carey

  Thinking, Done, Littles

  "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I always have shoe trouble.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Shoes

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• Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

  Alan Dundes

  Moments, Enjoy, Present Moment

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• 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

  Girl, Silly, Book

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• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  Ted Dekker

  Kids, Parent, Age

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, London

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Years, People

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• 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.

  Karen Allen

  Independent, People, Interesting

  "Interview: Karen Allen and the Kingdom of Her Crystal Life". Interview with PatrickMcD, hollywoodchicago.com. September 29, 2009.

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• Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

  Shinzo Abe

  Beautiful, Japan, Sea

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• The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

  Van Morrison

  Relationship, Strife, Wells

  Song: Underlying Depression, Album: Days Like This

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• Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Riding, Lines, Fixing

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• I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

  Randy Newman

  Air, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Rollin', Album: Good Old Boys

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• I never have no trouble with my rubber girl.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Rubber

  Song: Little Rubber Girl

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• He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Business, Ambition, Crowns

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• I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Running, Nice

  "All the Trouble in the World. The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague and Poverty". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

  Clay Walker

  Baby, Too Much, Shovels

  Song: Bury The Shovel, Album: Hypnotize the Moon, 1995

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• I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

  Jackson Browne

  Jeans, Rejection, Bogart

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• Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

  Elvis Presley

  Religious, Religion, Knees

  Song: Crying in the Chapel, Album: How Great Thou Art

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• The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Responsibility, Media

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• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick

  Honest, Reviews, Ifs

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• I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Character, Littles

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