Annoyed Quotes - Page 3

• I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

  Toni Morrison

  Smile, People, Understanding

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

  Moliere

  Vices, Annoying, Virtue

  10 Copy quote

• People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.

  Howie Mandel

  People, World, Annoying

  13 Copy quote

• Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Red Flags, Lords And Ladies

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Attitude, Home, Two

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 207), 1993.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Loss, Exercise

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.440, Psychology Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

  Dale Carnegie

  Blessing, Irritation, Air

  25 Copy quote

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Purpose, Annoying

  8 Copy quote

• In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

  Tim Cahill

  Animal, Wind, Biting

  7 Copy quote

• I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Calling, Spokes

  "Advice to a Young Scientist". Book by Peter Medawar, p. 25, 1979.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

  Amber Benson

  Selfish, Real, Book

  5 Copy quote

• I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.

  Len Goodman

  Growing Up, People, Parent

  5 Copy quote

• I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

  Eve Best

  Watches, Worn

  "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.

  William Zinsser

  Confused, Writing, Tired

  17 Copy quote

• Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Girlfriend, School, Boys

  4 Copy quote

• I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.

  John Graves

  Thinking, Southern, Progress

  6 Copy quote

• Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Suffering, Faults

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Epistolæ Ad Fratrem, I. 1, p. 265-67, 1922.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

  Ken Robinson

  Heart, Kids, Home

  5 Copy quote

• There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
  both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
  talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
  during the trial.

  David Letterman

  Interesting, Would Be, Three

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Cutting

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.46, Penguin UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell on them or on anything relating to them. For example, don't think that they ought not to have treated you so, being who they are, or whom they think themselves to be, or the like. All this is fuel and kindling of wrath, anger, and hatred.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Thinking, Wrath, Hatred

  11 Copy quote

• I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

  Mira Grant

  Facts, Immortal

  4 Copy quote

• I was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]

  Shahar Pe'er

  Tennis, Losing, Honest

  4 Copy quote

• One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

  Mitch Harper

  Long, Role Models, Entrepreneur

  4 Copy quote