Georgiana Burne-Jones Quotes

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.

Georgiana Burne-Jones

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• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Go

• My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Escaping

• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Trouble

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Other

• When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Trouble

• 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
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Shy

• Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Bear

• If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

  

  James Woolsey
  • Government
  • Trouble
  • Do Nothing

• Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Effect
  • Device

• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Singing
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trouble
  • Guitar
  • Fame

• The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Running
  • Fall
  • Trouble

• Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Trouble

• We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Free
  • Poetry
  • Trouble

• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Technology
  • Rock
  • Balance

• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Different
  • Trouble

• I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Trouble
  • Ends
  • Meeting

• I've never been in a situation where I had to run for my life, but I've been bitten by a lot of poisonous snakes where it was fairly painful. Pythons of size have a lot of teeth in that mouth, it's a painful bite and those wounds get infected fairly easily. I've got snake wounds from these animals that have lasted quite a while where it'll ache for several days. Having said that, I've been lucky; it's not like I'm looking for trouble with these animals either. It's not an envelope I'm willing to push.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Running
  • Animal
  • Trouble

• I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Film

• I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Door
  • Beatles

• Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Done
  • Sports
  • Victory

• 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.

  

  Georgiana Burne-Jones
  • Trouble
  • Device
  • Payment