Famous Trouble Sayings

#1. You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies ... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.

Philibert Orry

#2. the trouble with the famous is that they must be replaced and they can never quite be replaced, and that gives us this unique sadness.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.

Dee Dee Artner

#4. Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

Ellen Wittlinger

#6. It's only now I realize how easy it was to do so on the backs of other women's sons.

Helen Simonson

#7. To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

Brian Harris

#8. You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.

Gene Robinson

#9. I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Bruce Willis

#10. Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

Heloise

#11. Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Mike Greenberg

#12. You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

Elizabeth McCracken

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

E.W. Howe

#14. It was a though we'd been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

David Abram

#15. The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.

Norah Jones

#17. There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

Leo Ornstein

#18. The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Harry Connick Jr.

#19. To change your life, change your thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#20. I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Courtney Thorne-Smith