Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.
What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It would be unseemly for me to enter in except to suggest that he'd save himself an awful lot of trouble if he just simply ceased to give them the time of day.
fretting at trouble only doubles it.
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.
You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.