Trouble Quotes

• Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.

  

  William Goldman
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Brain

• A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

  

  Confucius
  • Think
  • Man
  • Trouble

• Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Suffering
  • Stronger
  • Predecessors

• Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

  

  William Gibson
  • World
  • Past
  • Brain

• My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Desire
  • Trouble
  • Characters

• I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Decision

• Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Nature
  • Trouble
  • Neighbours

• And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

  

  William Hurt
  • Trouble
  • Use
  • Example

• I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

  

  Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • Different
  • Listening
  • Wrote

• Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Trouble
  • Theory
  • Comprise

• Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Error
  • Jude
  • Grammarian

• When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Decision
  • Trouble

• If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Thing
  • Irritating way

• There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

  

  William Barclay
  • Danger
  • Stills
  • Lazy

• Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Golf
  • Ball
  • Course

• Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • Winning
  • Worry
  • Magic

• ...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Work
  • God
  • Help

• If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

  

  Whitney Tilson
  • Professional
  • Advantage
  • Investors

• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Real
  • America
  • Medical

• I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.

  

  Amy Dumas
  • Play
  • Trouble
  • Finding

• The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Remember
  • Trouble
  • American History

• ...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Care
  • Concentration
  • Waiter

• I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • My Life
  • Trouble
  • Comic

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