Quotes About Frustration

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.

I want violence. I want punching in the face. I'm disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.

What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.

I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles.

It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.

I feel incredibly passionate about 'Bunheads,' but the network was not supportive of the show, and you have to have that.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.

I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration for others, and peace of mind. Instead, I'm a fury of annoyance.

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has always bothered me given the fact that other authors can turn out a book every six months while I usually take about two years.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

As time goes on, we suppress our dreams, which really makes me sad.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

I was so frustrated after 2016 with the Republican Party. When we had the House, the presidency and the Senate, and we had a pretty fair Supreme Court, I really expected to see all of these things that Republicans have wanted for so long finally come to fruition, but then it all kind of fell flat on its face.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

A lot of guys are walking around with a lot simmering beneath the surface, and sometimes it explodes.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.