Trouble Quotes - Page 32

It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Trouble's made us kin.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

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

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

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.

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.