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Quotes About Frustration

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
~ John Updike
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
~ Tim Burton
As a nation, we spent eight billion hours sitting in our cars, waiting for lights to change, for the driver ahead to sneak into that parking spot, for an accident to be cleared.
~ Tatiana Schlossberg
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!
~ Susan Orlean
Sometimes I can't sleep at night because I'm so excited to work on sprinting the next day, because I'm such a bad sprinter.
~ Lauren Gibbs
It's been five seasons now that I'm with Spurs, and I've got a little bit frustrated about Europe. We've got the talent to go further than we've done.
~ Hugo Lloris
Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or by CIA design - but its power comes from the growing frustration Weisberg's fictional alter ego feels at a system designed to betray seeming innocents in the most casual and cruel manner possible.
~ Sarah Weinman
You come in on practice squad and you know you're not going to play in the game, you know you're not going to get any reps. It's frustrating... you don't want to just practice your whole life. You want to practice to play.
~ Danny Amendola
I went up to Melwood full-time and was training with the first team day in and day out but never getting in the squad. That was when I went on loan to Hull and I felt my career really started.
~ Harry Wilson
EC3 began as a spoiled brat, and I felt it was important for the fans to be able to relate to the character - not as themselves but as someone they may have encountered in their lives and really just want to sock square in the face.
~ Ethan Carter III
You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.
~ Cheryl Ladd
I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.
~ Tim O'Brien
For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have a big personality, I often find myself trying to squeeze myself into boxes that are really too small for me, and it ends up not working out.
~ Barrett Wilbert Weed
I feel like a mosquito being squeezed.
~ Rob Pilatus
Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.
~ Tim Howard
To spend 17 months on the sidelines is tough for anyone, and it's hard to see everyone go out training and then to go and watch games at the Emirates Stadium.
~ Jack Wilshere
Stadiums are notoriously bad for cell phone reception. Spending the majority of a game trying to post an Instagram'd picture of the field isn't just pitiful, it's damn near hopeless.
~ Sean Evans
My staff are pretty protective, it drives me nuts. I like to just do my own thing, that's pretty well it.
~ Rob Ford
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.
~ Elvis Mitchell
In the initial stages of my career, I was actually hiding behind a mask to hide who I was, but I was getting frustrated. I wasn't getting better bookings; I wasn't competing at bigger events.
~ Mustafa Ali
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
~ Anders Zorn
Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
~ Marianne Williamson
People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.
~ Demian Maia
It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.
~ Jose Gonzalez