#trouble

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

— Tenzing Norgay

#everest #i #know #make #much

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. ↗

— Gary Numan

#causing #child #grammar #grammar school #happiest

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #been #before #bowie #chased

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #clear #clear conscience #conscience #everything

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#anywhere #busy #devil #doing #good

If I think I'm going to get into trouble I always say that I'm sick. ↗

— Kelly Rowland

#get #going #i #i always #i think

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#enough #fall #game #half #i

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#compassion #connectedness #help #oneness #trouble

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. ↗

— John H. Speke

#buffalo #dark #dark places #delighting #especially