Annoying Quotes - Page 29

• Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

  Jim Butcher

  Want, Littles, Helping

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.18, Penguin

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• Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

  Jim Butcher

  People, Insulting, Seems

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.40, Penguin Group

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• If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Alive, Ifs

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• Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.” “What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inquired Jessamine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Games, Mind

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.

  Karl Pilkington

  Wall, Might, Facts

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.127, Canongate Books

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• Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Receiving, Invitations

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16

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• A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.

  Demetri Martin

  Know It All, Persons, Knows

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• Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Government, Political

  Alexander Hamilton (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793”, p.385

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• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Careers, Acting, Aesthetic

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• Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

  Gabrielle

  Sports, Passion, Men

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• Some people said I was annoying, but now look how far we've come.

  The Miz

  Wwe, People, Looks

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• Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wish, Debt, Benefits

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Rap is just to me very annoying.

  James Hetfield

  Rap

  "Metallica: 'War has its purpose' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

  Chris Colfer

  Growing Up, Character, Gay

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.

  Eliza Coupe

  Running, Children, Sorry

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

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• Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

  Ricky Jay

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Looks, Lips, Incredibles

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• 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

  Uncles, Dad, Play

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• I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

  Bo Burnham

  Sociopath

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• I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

  Parker Posey

  Girl, Character, Guy

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

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• You can't win. The annoying thing is that you can't attack them, but you can't defend yourself. The best thing you could possibly do is punch a paparazzi and give them their big payday.

  Robert Pattinson

  Winning, Giving, Payday

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• Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Heart, Justice

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.17, Penguin

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• The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

  H. L. Mencken

  Equality, Kind, Imagine

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• You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Kids, Awards, Cake

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• The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.

  Aphex Twin

  Artist, People, Priorities

  Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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