Annoying Quotes - Page 27

• Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?

  Orson Scott Card

  Love, Girl, Crazy

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Xenocide: Book 3 of the Ender Saga”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• What an annoying mad thing love is!

  Emanuel Schikaneder

  Love, Love Is, Mad

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• Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sight, Soldier, Hammers

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• Neil Lennon wasn't sent off for scoring a goal, and that's what annoys me

  Martin O'Neill

  Goal, Lennon

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• These are a few of my favorite things.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Tragedy, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  "My Favorite Things" (song) (1959)

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• It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

  Helen Keller

  Art, Spring, Pride

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

  Elmore Leonard

  Prologue, Introduction, Following

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, People, Realization

  James K. Galbraith, Kari Levitt, Mel Watkins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Unconventional wisdom: lectures from the John Kenneth Galbraith prize in economics”

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• We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.

  Noel Gallagher

  People, Manchester, Traits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Friends can be incredible sometimes, but have you ever had a friend that can be really annoying or really mean to you? Friends shouldn't stab you in the back. Have you ever wondered if your friend has ever said stuff about you to their other friends? It gets pretty intimidating sometimes to think about that. What I'm saying is to find your friends that are real. Don't keep the ones that are fake and are just friends with you for what you have. Be strong. Don't take no for an answer. Never back down. Stand up for what you believe in. Friends are great to have, but just be cautious. (.

  Austin Mahone

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that.

  Harry Styles

  People, Complaining, Goes On

  "This One Direction interview got us death threats". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 24, 2015.

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• Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  People, Care, Tvs

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• Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

  H. L. Mencken

  Saving, Scoundrels, Improving

  Newspaper Days: 1899 - 1906 ch. 2 (1941)

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• I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Smart, Genius, Really Smart

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• Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.

  Jon Hamm

  Believe, Silly, Talking

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• How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kings, Heart, Law

  Lines added to Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764)

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• People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

  John Bonham

  People, Care, Take Care

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.

  Susan Orlean

  Radio, Ads, Shocked

  "Airwaves" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

  Karl Pilkington

  People, Positive People, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

  Pink

  Gay, Rights, America

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• One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

  Voltaire

  Poetry, Tragedy, Merit

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4095, e-artnow

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• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Movie

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, Writing, Finals

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• People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

  Christopher Paolini

  People, History, Remember

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.213, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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