Annoying Quotes - Page 12

• I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me.

  Lara Stone

  Real, Personality, Honest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

  Dave Eggers

  School, Thinking, Should Have

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• With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Roots, Meditation

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• --but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

  Charles Stross

  Heart, Sleep, Personality

  Charles Stross (2008). “Saturn's Children”, p.21, Penguin

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• This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

  Tom Robbins

  Long, Water, Amanda

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.12, Bantam

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• I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

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• Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking About You, Want, Eric Northman

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1209, Penguin

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• I never wanted to get a job of musician. That was kind of my thing. I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

  Nate Ruess

  Dad, Musical, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.

  Christopher Walken

  Quirky, Scripts, Odd

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• There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Phrases, Told You So

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• Cutter's Way was a real test of my stupidity. Every day, it was like, who did I think I was? But people put up with me. But I considered myself an alcoholic, so I had the inside track on how an alcoholic would do this or that and so on and so forth. That became pretty annoying, I'm sure.

  John Heard

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I think people are very cynical with actors trying to tell them what to believe in, or lobbying for any kind of changing of government policy. Even I get cynical about it. Like, Why is Sharon Stone telling me this? And there's just something annoying about having Charlie Sheen tell me, "It's your responsibility to vote," in an admonishing way on MTV.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Jenn Shreve, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2000.

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• I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

  Emily VanCamp

  Humility, Thinking, People

  Interview with Ryan Porter, www.flare.com. January 31, 2012.

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• We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

  Joshua Ferris

  Wasting Time, Wasted Time

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• Okay, I don’t like it when you walk away from me, but other than that...(Arik) Yeah, I guess that makes sense. You transcend a dimension to come here and I brush you off. I can see where that might get annoying. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Might, Dimensions, Yeah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.229, Macmillan

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• I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

  A. N. Wilson

  Father, Thinking, Catholic

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• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Tv Shows, Baha

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• The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

  Suzanne Collins

  Positive, Death, Strong

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.748, Scholastic Inc.

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• Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs, Work, Games

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.14, Penguin

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• Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. "All right- PLEASE." "NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Sound, Way

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• Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

  Scott Spencer

  Southern, Creepy

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• 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, Annoyed

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

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• Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

  Alan Cooper

  Running, Powerful, Hopeful

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

  Barry Hughart

  Keys

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