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Quotes About Frustration

It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.
~ Tom Fitton
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
~ B. D. Wong
I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.
~ Marilyn Manson
I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read music, so I wasn't allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one's interested in a 16-year-old boy who's interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly.
~ Matt Berry
I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.
~ Kelly Clarkson
Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.
~ Steve Spurrier
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
~ Alan Moore
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
~ Tony Greig
Occasionally, when I come off during a game, I get a little bit angry. But it's only because I want to play in every game and every minute to help my team-mates.
~ Fernandinho
I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!
~ Monique Roffey
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
~ Christopher Buckley
It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.
~ Nick Hornby
I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.
~ Julie Harris
I've dreamed on numerous occasions that I've lost the biggest event in my life, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it.
~ Jordan Burroughs
Roth was irritated. Just because he was a Jew too, they always assumed he felt the same way about things. It made him feel a little frustrated. No doubt some of his bad luck had come because he was one, but that was unfair; it wasn't as if he took an interest, it was just an accident of birth.
~ Norman Mailer
You remember how it feels, don't you? All that desire scorching you straight through. Feeling like you're penned up in a small-town cage, jailed by cornstalk bars. Knowing, just knowing, that you'll be stuck in that quiet little town forever if you don't take a chance.
~ Norman Partridge
Try feeding a five-day hunger with some OJ that tastes like a cup of freezer burn, and nothing to wash it down but a bunch of words you can't get out of your head.
~ Norman Partridge
I'm afraid I'm not working out according to plan, he said. But if I am really a person you shouldn't expect me to. Why did you make me without making a world for me to live in. It's as though God had made Adam and not bothered to make Eden, nor Eve. I think it's going to be frightfully difficult being me.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Because so many times what keeps us in that valley of depression, what keeps us in that valley of frustration, is our response to a moment and not recognizing that it is exactly that. It's a moment. It's one scene of your movie. And what makes a great movie are scenes that are put together of great conflict.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, said Kadife. Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Mnogo je toga u životu, vjerojatno je tako, ali ti, eto, ?ekaš. Ovako to meni izgleda: stvari koje bih želio da se dogode potrebno je dugo ?ekati, a kad se i dogode, ne dogode se onako kako sam ih ja zamišljao i o?ekivao; kao da su se sve urotile protiv mene: dolaze polako, polako, a dok se sna?eš i pogledaš, ve? su i prošle.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Mevlut beÅŸ dakika ayn? köÅŸede durursa kald?r?m? iÅŸgal etti diye arabas?n? al?p parçalayan belediye memurlar?, büyük ÅŸirketlerin kald?r?mlarda yürümeyi zorlaÅŸt?ran buzdolaplar?na hiç ses etmiyordu.
~ Orhan Pamuk
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
~ Orson Scott Card