Trouble Quotations | Page 4

What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn't want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn't want to do that to my family.

When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just couldn't have it immediately. Anything you can just go out and get - like platform shoes - is not going to inspire people as much as something they have to go through a little bit of hell to have.

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

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

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

I was spinning the ball too much. We just came out of the holidays, and we got in trouble for it. I've got confidence in my teammates. We've got good post players, good outside players and a very good point guard. With good teammates, we're going to go far. We just play good ball together and are friends.

One of the clear-cut rules for employees is to follow a chain of command, ... Pat has trouble dealing with authority when he has to abide by it.

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

My uncle had trouble carving the turkey. He complained about the sharpness of the knife. My grandma proceeded to rip the turkey apart with her own hands and throw a leg and breast on everyone's plate and said, 'There, that's Brooklyn style.'

My understanding is that I should have no trouble getting back for spring training. It's a six-month rehab, maybe, and I have a little extra time in there. Hopefully, I should have no trouble coming back from the first day on.

One of the new things we saw in our last business confidence survey, right up there, was trouble finding new workers.

New Yorkers remember when we were in trouble ... people from the country and around the world rushed to help, ... We won't forget that; we will do the same thing if we can possibly be helpful down there.

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

I was surprised that we could hurt them that much inside. We didn't think we would get many inside looks, so I was proud of Sarah's performance. I wanted them to go down low and then kick it back outside. The plan was to wait for the good shot but we had trouble finding it.

If we don't do something, we're headed into deep trouble.

If we don't hold kids, the sport's going to be in trouble -- we've heard that consistently in every sport. The kind of stuff we do is critical to try and make sure the next generation of fans doesn't go off entirely to snowboarding and stuff like that.

Noah won't have any trouble getting a D-I full-ride scholarship.

Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.

I wouldn't want to face the Bulls in the playoffs. They could be trouble.

I wouldn't say there's no trouble because I think there is frustration and disappointment at going out early in your conference tournament. But this has been a resilient team all year long. We'll be ready to go (tonight).

When I looked at film of Thursday's game, they did some things that really gave us trouble but they just missed shots. They were sending a lot of guys to the offensive board and (Mike) Hill was getting a lot of offensive penetration.

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

Luckily we all can play a lot of positions or we'd be in trouble right now. But we can't send the commissioner a letter and say, 'We've got some people hurt. Let us play Wednesday.' The game is going to go on.

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Olympia Jacobs was dealing with a bad foot and sat out the first three quarters, but came in and really sparked us (in the fourth quarter). We were hoping to get through it without her, but we got into some foul trouble and lost the lead. She only scored three points, but her defensive energy got everyone going.

Obviously we've been having some trouble scoring goals lately. We're telling the guys they've just got to be patient. We're getting good chances, the goals will come.

Obviously we were having trouble knocking down the outside shot. Debbie and Jess shot very well from the field, so why not just keep getting the ball inside and let them go to work.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

One very obvious indication elephants don't do well in captivity is the fact that zoos are having so much trouble breeding them.

Nonfiction takes no liberty with the facts. The trouble with book publishers is that they don't have the staff or they don't want to have the staff to ensure the veracity of a writer. ... My wife is going to hate me for this, but that is what I believe.

One area of trouble in consumer spending is households and individuals with weakening credit profiles. So far it's not yet a majority of households but the number of consumers in credit distress is on the increase. That's something to keep an eye on,

My height is an advantage, if I want to use it. Short guys have short hands and short feet and they come up quick. Taller guys, they use their advantage. Everyone tries to use their advantages. He's going to have trouble with me. I'm going to win the fight.

Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.

Morgan hasn't played that much this season, but she gave us a lift tonight. With Allison (Rader) in foul trouble and not playing well, we really needed this type of effort from Morgan.

Monday night, Tuesday morning is the only real trouble spot in the forecast.

(Monday), we watched films of a recent Greenwood game, and they really struggled from three-point range. They only made 30 percent of their shots, and they had trouble handling the ball.

Money is always an issue in college. I buy more clothes for the spring than any other season. I get into a little bit of trouble with money. I'm learning how to deal.

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

More important than playing him one-on-one, the key is group coverage. If we play as a team, don't leave any gaps, play tightly together, and fall back well, I'm positive they'll have lots of trouble beating us.

My daughter Rakehsa has never been arrested and never been in trouble with the law,

My experience with juveniles is that kids have a tendency that, when they start getting in trouble, they get into more and more trouble quickly, ... And the early intervention that a juvenile assessment center will provide us will allow us to intervene and disrupt that process quicker.

My first four starts I've had trouble with that, and finally you just get fed up with it. If we were going to win, I had to get ahead and get people out.

No one who works hard every day should have trouble putting food on the table at night.

Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.

Maybe this time around in reaching back to borrow from old movies, maybe Lucas or his people had trouble separating stereotypes from the sort of things that would help strengthen the movie.

Politically, this is very serious for the president. If the base of his party has lost faith, that could spell trouble for his policy agenda and for the party generally.

Perdition. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

No doubt the fast racetrack made the difference. She spun her wheels in the slop last time. I could see she was in trouble in the Old Hat after an eighth of a mile when the jockey was scrubbing on her and she was going nowhere. A lot of horses didn't run that day and we were one of them.

No doubt we've been having trouble on the special teams, but tonight we did some positive things.

Neff pitched real well and battled out of some late trouble. We did a good job with hits in the clutch.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: / There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; / Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.

Obviously, energy supply is still having trouble keeping up with the current pace of demand.

Obviously, she's 6-6, so she's going to have some advantages inside. She's going to be their go-to focus so we need to work on defending that and forcing the lob -- playing in front and pushing back. Our biggest key is staying out of foul trouble and not to picking up silly fouls and bailing her out.

Obviously the course was playing very different from the practice round. The par-fives you can reach in two all of a sudden you're having trouble reaching in three.

People with Alzheimer's have a lot of trouble with hand-washing. They don't know to turn the tap on, they don't know to put soap on, they don't know to rinse.

P.G.'s a very physical team. We thought their physicality really posed trouble for us early in the game, but I think our kids responded.

People will have trouble keeping a job, or even getting a job if their genetic information gets to an insurer, a potential employer or even an employer,

Rich and Mike kind of shot themselves in the foot by getting in trouble. We sure will miss this place, especially the no-smoking.

Right in the middle of the game I thought we were in trouble and I just told them 24 minutes they have to pull it together and a team and they did. We held them to two goals in the second half. Our transition game was awesome, we took away the two guys that score 70 percent of their goals.

My friend Jim Parrack is in 'Child of God,' and we grew up together. Back then, we would watch old movies and go reenact them at a Blockbuster or a supermarket. We'd end up getting in trouble because you can't reenact movies. People think you're crazy.

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

I don't go to strip bars anymore. I used to go incognito, trouble was they always thought I was an undercover cop.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met.

I got into foul trouble early and never got into the flow of the game. The foul trouble is very frustrating, and I knew when I saw (referee) Bob Delaney I was going to be in trouble anyway. We did still have chances to win the game; we just made mistakes you can't make in this building.

I got myself in trouble by not throwing strikes. I had that great defense behind me, but I didn't let them put it in play.

I got off to a good start. Then I got plagued by foul trouble, and it kind of busted up my rhythm.

I got to know the lines on the golf course. You know where you're hitting the ball, you know where the trouble is, trying to keep it away from it. So I'm starting to feel a little bit more comfortable with it and hopefully I can keep it going the next couple of days.

I didn't do anything exceptionally well today. Overall, I think the best thing I did was (I) stayed out of trouble and kept the ball in front of me all day.

I don't even think it was Harvard, I just didn't throw enough strikes. I had trouble getting my slider over so I relied on my fastball more and they were sitting on it. They have a lot of disciplined batters. Even with two strikes, they didn't chase too often and they made me work more.

If this is as good as we get, then we're in trouble in March. We've got some things we have to tweak.

If this is a threat to your marriage, you got a problem. If the institution of marriage is in trouble today, it is because of heterosexual people.

If this thing knocks out significant quantities of refining capacity ... we're going to be in deep, dark trouble.

If they up the level and beat the Czechs they're back in the groove, but if they don't, they're in serious trouble and may not medal.

I don't know where he was from, but wherever it was, he brought the trouble here with him.

I don't know what I can say that wouldn't get me in trouble. He's a Cincinnati Red.

I don't know that much about them other than the fact that they gave us a lot of trouble last year over at their yard.

If we have seniors like this and I'm yelling and screaming at halftime, we're in a lot of trouble. They've got to take responsibility and they did.

If we don't turn it around against Weber State we are in for a world of trouble. It's possible for us to lose our ranking and not make nationals.

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

If they're low on inventory, they should build some. If they have trouble meeting demand, then everyone will. They shouldn't be running this low.

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

If they don't get out of there, they're going to be in deep trouble.

If they don't get together (with other companies), they're going to be in trouble.

If they don't meet expectations, I think we're in trouble -- but I think the bar has been lowered across the board, ... It's more about the guidance and what they say about future quarters.

Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

(Lee) has trouble when he tries to guide the ball. He's got a good enough arm that he just needs to drop back and fire it.

Last year we saw (Tony) Stewart have trouble as well as (Jeremy) Mayfield and they never seemed to rebound after that, ... It's just the pace. In a lot of ways it's like a golf tournament. If you start off and you're four- or five-under and the other guys are waffling around with a bogey and a par, they're not gonna catch you. It's up to the leader to make those mistakes and we did have a big mistake at Atlanta with the motor blowing up. That took away our solid advantage, so when you have a bad race early on it's just that much more difficult to overcome later on.

Last year Tony had trouble as well as Mayfield, and they never seemed to rebound. It's like a golf tournament. If you start off and you're 4- or 5-under and the other guys are waffling around par, they're not going to catch you. ... When you have a bad race early on it's just that much more difficult to overcome later on.