Obnoxious Quotes - Page 4

• "Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, Grateful, People

  "Start where You are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Hate, School

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• Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?

  Bill Hicks

  Marijuana, Games, Drunk

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• His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

  Charles Lamb

  Sarcastic, Voice

  Charles Lamb (1870). “The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.454

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• A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Team, Personality

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• If you can rhythmically slow down your breath to four breaths a minute, you can indirectly control your mind and slow it down from its obnoxious behavior.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Mind, Four

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• It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

  Russell Brand

  Lying, People, Drunk

  "Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery". Book by Neil Steinberg and Sara Bader, www.npr.org. August 23, 2016.

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• Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Lazy, Annoying, Lied

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Stars, Home, Night

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.24, SCB Distributors

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• I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Play, Important

  "Jonah Hill ALLEN GREGORY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

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• Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Years, Class, Graduates

  Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

  Peter Cameron

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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• It’s like trying to herd a flock of geese,” said Orik. “They’re always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they’ll bite your hand first chance they get.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hands, Always Trying, Noise

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition with Video (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, p.251, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.

  Katie Price

  Sexy, Rude, Drink

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• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Stupid, Drinking

  "I Think I'm Meant to Be Dead". Interview with Lauren Zoric, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2000.

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• I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

  Liz Phair

  Bars, Remember, Loud

  "Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

  John Green

  Sweet, Flirty, One Day

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

  Kesha

  Way, Loud, Feels

  "KE$HA and the Not-Quite-72 Virgins in Her Own Personal Heaven". Interview With Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2009.

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• No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

  Joe McNally

  Dream, Photography, Art

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• In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

  David Hockney

  Wall, Thinking, Sketching

  ""Portrait of the Artist as a Naughty Boy"". Interview with John Mortimer, In Character, 1983.

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• Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

  Rex Reed

  Careers, Comedian, Bridesmaids

  "Declined: In Identity Thief, Bateman’s Bankable Billing Can’t Lift This Flick out of the Red" by Rex Reed, observer.com. February 5, 2013.

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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

  Adi Da

  Discipline, Celebration

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• I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Feminist, Dehumanization

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• There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Men, Self, Made

  Joe R. Lansdale (2010). “Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (2)”, p.101, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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