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Quotes About Frustration

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
~ Tom Jenkinson
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.
~ Greg Wise
I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
~ Florence Griffith Joyner
Temping is the worst. I would rather starve and be homeless than nanny or temp again.
~ Nikki Glaser
I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
~ Nick Hornby
There are instances where, in my mid to late 20s, I very often found myself going for roles that they didn't want to cast me in, because I'd done good work, but in a producer's eyes, I wasn't high enough status. So I lost out.
~ Robert Sheehan
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
~ Bela Lugosi
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
~ Harmony Korine
I am giving my best to have a quiet life but sometimes it doesn't depend on myself because people just want to come into my home and steal some things, even though I have nothing in my home.
~ Dejan Lovren
I saw everyone else as 'normal' and myself as messed up in a way. And all of that made me so angry. Stealing allowed me to take my anger out on something else.
~ Gigi Gorgeous
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
~ Michel Faber
Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.
~ Pia Zadora
Every time I stepped on the practice field when I was in San Diego, I dreaded going to work. It wasn't any fun. I didn't like the people I was playing with. They didn't like me.
~ Ryan Leaf
I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
~ Naima Adedapo
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.
~ Mia Kirshner
My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.
~ Lari White
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.
~ Ken Watanabe
You know... I was just thinking," David begins, and Allison turns toward hi,. "What?" "This is the worst vacation I ever had.
~ Thomas Fahy
There is an image stuck in my mind, but I have no words for it. It gives me no peace. 'Tis a queer backward way of making verse, like going through a door arse first.
~ Thomas Flanagan
I'd like to fuck Andrea Laiacona and see her tits, but I can't get hard and I prefer Big Pharma, anyway! (Color me 'bitch' — I ain't shit !)
~ Thomas Frank
Abused patience turns to fury.
~ Thomas Fuller
But knowledge to their eyes her ample pageRich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll;Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,And froze the genial current of the soul.
~ Thomas Gray