Troublemaker Quotes

“Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar."

When Dad was in one of his rare, fanciful moods, he told guests that the pixies left me on the doorstep because I bit their fingers too often.

My favorite was always when Mum said that before I was born, it rained for seven days and seven nights solid, and when she went out into the yard to ask the sky what it was weeping for, I dropped out of the clouds at her feet and the sun came out. I always liked the idea of being such a bother that I affected even the weather.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial.”
― Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die

“Do I look like I'm compelled to do anything? Do I seriously look like anyone could compel me to even bring them a coaster?"
She looked me over again. "You look like you're compelled to cause trouble, but I doubt that's the boss' directive.”
― Debra Dunbar, A Demon Bound

“A true best friend may get you into trouble, but they will always be there to pull you out of it too.”
― Kaylee Stepkoski

“The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he's about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in the negative connotation as one being two-faced usually implies. For instance, to be misunderstood can mean to be improperly deemed a troublemaker when that is not one's true intent: you see, to troublemakers, the artist knows that the peacemaker may seem like a troublemaker; therefore he may, whether in honesty or in jest, at times, present himself as a troublemaker for perceptual, artistic flair. But then to the artless peacemakers, because of this they will interpret him as a troublemaker. This is why the artist has so few allies. To the troublemakers he's a troublemaker, yet still the peacemakers a troublemaker.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.”
― Jaleigh Johnson, The Secrets of Solace

“Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“The moment he makes you feel like he's done something to benefit you, walk away, because it's what will get you into the most trouble.”
― K. Weikel, Replay: Lifeline

“You’ve always been like this! You sink into trouble like it’s a warm bath.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Money is just a piece of paper for me, it always brings trouble with it and too much of money will make you mad for it”
― Vignesh S.V, Adventures of Dollar Right

“The phrase ‘Boys will be boys,’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“You can try to keep the apprentice out of trouble, but you can’t keep the trouble out of the apprentice.”
― Ian Gregoire, The Apprentice in the Master’s Shadow

“A tongue can move the world
A tongue is a defensive devise
A tongue is a offensive
A tongue is sharper than a razor
A tongue is faster than a bullet
A tongue is stronger than a racket
A tongue can make you a hero
A tongue can make you a criminal
A tongue can move a trigger
A tongue is as dangerous as all above so please control your tongue because it can Destroy the world!”
― Beta Metani'Marashi

“We are perhaps the funniest shattered pieces of the ongoing cosmic explosion; and the biggest troublemakers!”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“Vivian had found trouble early and often, and discovered that instead of it scaring her, it only made her feel more alive.”
― Michael Callahan, Searching for Grace Kelly

“If anyone loved danger, Jev Brennan did.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Rising for Autumn

“There is but one peacemaker: the Prince of Peace. He is a revolutionary: His teachings run counter to the prevailing assertion that the “other” must change. He quietly asks me to see myself as I am: messy, fallen, sinful. He gently invites me to change. Then He enables me to become, in Him, what I cannot become in and of myself. As He changes me, I experience His peace. As he changes me, I begin to understand that the “other” is my brother. As He changes me, I desire to love and serve my brother. These changes He enables in me transform me from trouble-maker to peace-maker. It is through the Prince of Peace – and through Him only – that I experience peace and become a peaceful man.”
― Jean-Michel Hansen

“Murphy biked circles around the courthouse parking lot like an evil newspaper boy from one of her favorite movies, Better Off Dead. She and Judge Miller Abbott didn't have a great history. Since she'd hit puberty, he'd seen her through two shoplifting convictions, countless underage alcohol issues, a few streaking episodes, and the time she'd mutilated the Bob's Big Boy "Big Boy.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Love and Peaches

“Weren’t we supposed to be serving food?” Theodore suddenly asked, standing up from his chair. “Who was in charge of that?”

“Moses,” Reed said, his smile sharp. “Did none of you idiots think it was strange he volunteered to do everything? I don’t even want to see what he deemed worthy for us to eat.”
― Jane Washington, Plier

“I don’t have any money,” he tells her.

“I know,” she replies, leaning over and unearthing a wallet. “But I found some.”

“‘Found.’”

She pulls out a card and puts the green leather square onto the console. The edge is riddled with tooth marks, and Nova frowns.

“That’s Harper’s.”

“I’ll buy him a present. He won’t mind.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise