Annoying Quotes - Page 18

• English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Gentleman, Asking

  Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.

  Banksy

  Two, Idiot, Reason

  "The Artist Hanksy Creates Banksy-like Images of Tom Hanks". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 01, 2012.

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• [Kids] are just like annoying short people

  Hank Azaria

  Kids, People, Short People

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• According to a new poll, Republicans are more likely to have a doughnut for breakfast, while Democrats prefer to eat bagels and croissants. While Independents are that annoying friend who's still looking at the menu after 15 minutes.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Bagels, Breakfast, Republican

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• Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

  Heather King

  Listening Ear, Names, People

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• I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of.

  John Mulaney

  Running, Children, Drinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.

  John Banville

  Hate, Night, Thinking

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2009.

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• This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Untrue, Has Beens

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.222, Macmillan

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• There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city.

  Vannevar Bush

  Writing, Talking, Land

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• Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, People, Good Relationship

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• The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!

  Jonathan Cainer

  Bad Mood, Fairy, Position

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• I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Kids, Men, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

  Richey Edwards

  Depression, Pain, Cutting

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• Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.

  Zicheng Hong

  Integrity, Taoism, Compromise

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• I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.

  Keke Palmer

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.

  Robert Greene

  Clever, War, Book

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you want somebody you enjoy being around. You don't want an annoying guy .

  John Petrucci

  Night, Guy, Band

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• I just got back from Hawaii on Saturday, and it's so depressing how quickly all the stresses and the stressful energy of L.A. comes bombarding back. Everyone's in a rush, you're annoying everyone, get out of their way, everyone's most important than you are, has got somewhere more important to be - very draining town. But I still love it in many ways. I wouldn't leave California. I think it's a fantastic state, if you can't be in Hawaii all the time.

  Natalie Maines

  Depressing, Stress, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it's really special to be a part of something that people are still watching or thinking about or interested in, or remember fondly many years later. I don't think it's annoying at all.

  Julia Stiles

  Thinking, Years, People

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.

  Miranda July

  People, Sincere, Seems

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.

  Miranda July

  Struggle, Asking, World

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Political, Film, Reason

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

  Jacques Monod

  Noise, Concerts, Whole

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• Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Hurt, Taken

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• I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Book, Taken

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