Annoying Quotes - Page 17

• Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Causes, Situation

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• People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Order, People

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• Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Way

  "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" by Henry Allen, www.washingtonpost.com. February 28, 2008.

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• Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.

  T.S. Mathews

  Silly, Men, People

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• Relationships matter above all, and that you build relationships by making yourself useful, not annoying. The PR practitioner should focus on providing helpful service to the journalist whenever possible. Help them source good story ideas, provide sources with intelligent contributions to make, thank them for their time and attention.

  Laura Fitton

  Intelligent, Ideas, Focus

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• I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

  Bradford Cox

  Eye, People, Attention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.

  Evan Davis

  Regret, Should Have, Perfection

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• I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Waiting, Reassuring

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• I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."

  Demetri Martin

  Crazy, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.

  John Constable

  Mother, Light, Essence

  "Constable". Book by Conal Shields, p. 288. Letter to Rev. John Fisher (1824), 1993.

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• We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.

  Jimmy Wales

  Mean, Thoughtful, Criticism

  Wikipedia-l mailing list, December 18, 2005.

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• If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

  Will Cuppy

  Play, Snakes, Clubs

  "The Hog-Nosed Snake". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their lives matter - self-centered means of numbing the questions of mattering. Culture has relapsed back into the self-aggrandizing, glorifying answers that the Athenians had presumed, which had Socrates railing against them until he got so annoying that they killed him.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Fall, Mean, Self

  "Interview With Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, Philosophy for the Public, and Everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?

  Liz Tuccillo

  People, Gathering, Asking

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• The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. And I only have like a tiny, tiny bit of that, and I'm already disgusted by it. But I realize that the only way to be disgusted by fame is to be famous, because otherwise it looks amazing. Then people stop you on the street, and it's like the most annoying thing in the world. The first time it happened it's great, and then the second time you have to shake somebody's hand.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Hands, People, Looks

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 01, 2009.

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• I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.

  Girl Talk

  Hunting, Car, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, United States, Disgrace

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.

  George Will

  Practice, Ideas, America

  "Thin Skins and Legislative Prayer". www.washingtonpost.com. May 07, 2014.

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• That’s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didn’t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you can’t make yourself really wish it away. It’s like wishing away . . . your soul.
  - Jenny

  Toni Blake

  Soul, Wish, Jenny

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• There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else. It's a very, very annoying and sort of frustrating thing and I just never wanted to go through it. I was very fortunate as I came up through the film business that I was able to insulate myself from that.

  George Lucas

  Frustration, Trying, Able

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I try and keep an open mind to peoples paths. The only thing that annoys me is negative poopy people and they come from all kinds of places. But I rarely have to deal with negative reactions.

  Holly Golightly

  People, Mind, Trying

  Source: hoopercomicart.blogspot.com

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• It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church's part to the attacks of heresy.

  Ronald Knox

  Church, Doctrine, Development

  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1963). “University and Anglican sermons of Ronald A. Knox: together with sermons preached on various occasions”

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• People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.

  Ben Harper

  Spiritual, People, Trying

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• If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Levels, Too Much

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• If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Glowing, People

  "Director Wes Craven Interview SCREAM 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2011.

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