Annoying Quotes - Page 24

• Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taken, Ignorance, Dust

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4082, e-artnow

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• When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

  Demetri Martin

  Car, Buying, Advertising

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2013

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• I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around." I feel so wanted. Thanks.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Needs, Littles

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• But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

  Kate DiCamillo

  Ruth, Care, Pages

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.121, Candlewick Press

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• Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Adults, Trends

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• You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

  Virginia Woolf

  Christian, Garden, Bells

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

  Asa Larsson

  Children, Father, Book

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• How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

  William Blake

  Children, Spring, Wings

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.202, Princeton University Press

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• Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

  Jim Butcher

  Cousin, Insulting, One Day

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.392, Penguin

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• If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don't ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.

  Tiger Woods

  Baseball, Moving, Player

  "No match for Tiger / Woods - and heckler - too much for Love to overcome" by Brian Murphy, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2004.

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• I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.

  Anne Lamott

  Thinking, People, Dull

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.190, Anchor

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• I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Children, Writing, Character

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

  Pink

  Thinking, Flattery, Imitation

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• Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

  Joseph Sobran

  Dream, Lying, Giving

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• There's nothing that annoys me more than people being horrible to my mates.

  Louis Tomlinson

  People, Mates, Horrible

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• I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.

  Mark Teixeira

  Two, Watches, Needs

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• It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

  Lauren Myracle

  Kids, People, Giving

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• Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

  Richelle Mead

  Talking, Sometimes

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned you when I had the chance." His ears flatten and he raises a paw. I hiss before he gets a chance, which seems to annoy him a little, since he considers hissing his own personal sound of contempt.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sound, Ears, Littles

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.144, Scholastic Inc.

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• You and Jace – you’re not quite normal, are you? I mean, not normal Shadowhunters. There’s something special about you both. Like the Seelie Queen said. You were experiments.” He smiled at her startled look. “I’m not stupid. I can put these things together. You with your rune powers, and Jace, well…no one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Stupid, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1220, Simon and Schuster

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• Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Distance, Light

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.83

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• I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?” “I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.” She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Brother, Wish, Debauchery

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• I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

  James Patterson

  Selfish, Hero, Giving

  "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

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• Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Forever, Week

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