Quotes About Frustration

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

With my bowling, I didn't know how I was doing it, so when it went wrong I didn't know how to fix it.

I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!

Whoever your boss is, or your bosses are, they have 20 percent of their job that they just don't like.

I get really frustrated - actually, it almost makes me angry - when I see, sometimes, magazines will publish a musician's playlist. They'll go and they'll ask, I don't know, somebody from Aerosmith or whoever, Coldplay, to list their five favourite albums. And it's always the same stuff!

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

There's a point where you're going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's taking interest.

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.