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Trouble Quotes


"If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest."


"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."


"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth."


"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat."


"If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent."


"Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble."



"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."


"I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation."


"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."


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


"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."


"There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it."


"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."


"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label."


"You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble."


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


"I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look."


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


"I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits."


"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it."


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


"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."


"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble."


"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more."


"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."


"We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it."


"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."


"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."


"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it."


"When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg."


"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."


"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."


"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."


"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."


"I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters."


"It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with."


"If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."


"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble."


"The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else."


"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."


"Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled."
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