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Quotes About Frustration

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
~ Alberto Giacometti
Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?
~ John O'Hara
I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it's like, well, why not? There's so much to be angry about.
~ Aja Naomi King
People communicate anger of course through facial expressions, but in voice, there's a wider spectrum, like cold anger and hot anger and frustration and annoyance, and that entire spectrum is a lot clearer in the voice channel.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
Trump has given voice to a widespread public feeling of alarm, frustration, and anger over the direction our country is headed. For all of that, conservatives are deeply grateful. America needed a loud, rude wake-up call. No one else has done that, and that accomplishment is huge.
~ Tom Tancredo
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
~ Anne Bronte
I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.
~ Miyavi
Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.
~ Hank Williams
Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
~ Patsy Cline
With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.
~ Rob McClure
Do I ever lose my temper? Sure, I do it all the time - just ask my wife, she will tell you.
~ Gianfranco Zola
When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write something majestic and grand, something like 'Hamlet' or 'Moby Dick,' but found myself with this small life - looking after kids, changing diapers, quarreling with my wife, unable to write anything, really.
~ Karl Ove Knausgard
If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me.
~ Anderson Cooper
I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
~ Maurice Sendak
I could see jealousy coming up, I could see anger, I could see frustration. I could see people's agendas. I could see my kids going wild - because we never had any money, and suddenly, we had money.
~ Erin Brockovich
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
~ Jimmy Smith
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.
~ Gwen Moore
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
~ Robert Lopez
The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.
~ Dean Wareham
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.
~ Leo Kottke
I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.
~ Mark Webber
It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.
~ Bonnie Bassler
For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
~ Zhang Yimou