Asking For Trouble Quotes

#1. My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

Natasha Lyonne

#2. You're asking for trouble, Hannagan," he growls.
"And you would be ... ?" Janie asks. She giggles.
"Trouble.

Lisa McMann

#3. It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.

Janice Galloway

#4. I had to maintain a fine balance between going in ready for trouble and going in asking for trouble.

Jim Butcher

#5. I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

Dave Barry

#6. You, sir, are asking for trouble.
... .
Fuck trouble. I wasn't asking for it.
I was inviting it.

Karina Halle

#7. A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

Walter Kirn

#8. Manhandeling a lady was asking for trouble pretty much anywhere, but square in the middle of cowboy-central, it was close to suicidal.

Linda Lael Miller

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

John Gould

#10. Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he'd never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life.

Cindi Madsen

#11. The lesson seemed to be twofold: do not anger the gods, but if you must, at least make sure your city isn't next to a lake, as that's just asking for trouble.

Jonathan L. Howard

#12. She wasn't ready for this kind of distraction he caused her. It was bad enough she found him attractive, but having a attractive man in her home was just asking for trouble.

J.C. Valentine

#13. It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you.

Ford Madox Ford

#14. Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

Frank Zappa

#15. People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

Stephen King

#16. Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they're asking for trouble.

Haruki Murakami

#17. One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

V.S. Naipaul

#18. Smart people admit unarmed helplessness is not only irresponsible, but, statistically, such carelessness is asking for trouble.

Mark Walters

#19. Give money to universities - that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.

Lang Hancock

#20. Yep, Gin and Brandi. Call me crazy, but naming your daughters after alcoholic beverages is just asking for trouble.

Kelley Armstrong

#21. I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

Richard Dawkins

#22. You're asking for trouble, woman." At the gruff tone of his voice, I raised my head and met his dark, chocolate-brown eyes, rimmed by long lashes that didn't take an ounce away from his masculinity. I wanted to drown in those eyes.
"I like trouble, remember?

Suzanne Johnson

#23. There's something about Betty, like she's a great big empty space waiting to suck in trouble. There'll always be a story.... One of these days Betty's going to get up and find a line of starving Africans outside her door. You can depend on it.

Laurie Graham

#24. Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking.

Louis L'Amour

#25. One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much.

Jael McHenry

#26. I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men."
"If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it?" Felicia asked. "If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness.

Susan Mallery

#27. I remember reading a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine once where this guy said... Every woman has the exact love life she wants

Elizabeth Young

#28. This girl I was SEEKING to get involved with as if not enough trouble already or other old romances hadn't taught me that message of pain, keep asking for it, for life

Jack Kerouac

#29. We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

George MacDonald

#30. Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we all got along. If there were no terrorism, Islamophobia, Western hypocrisy, corrupt government in African countries (especially Liberia), sexism, nativism, people like Donald Trump, stereotypes, war, Capitalism, Communism, Marxism and xenophobia.

Henry Johnson Jr

#31. I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

Marilyn Monroe

#32. If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

Simon Bird

#33. Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep aversion to causing more trouble than necessary for those of us who lived in the normal world.

Yoko Ogawa