Annoying Quotes - Page 30

• It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.

  A.M. Homes

  Mean, People, Kitchen

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.82, Granta Books

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• There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

  Robert Breault

  Purpose, Each Day, Distraction

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• Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.

  Missy Franklin

  People, Too Much, Hopefully

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• Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there's - like - YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It's not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It's annoying.

  Sky Ferreira

  Thinking, Rapper, Media

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

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• Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Track, Giving, Wife

  "Credit Where It’s Due" by Mark Feuerstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

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• People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

  Edward Frenkel

  Thinking, Ideas, Office

  Edward Frenkel (2013). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.145, Basic Books

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• I'm like the annoying guy in the street.

  Alec Soth

  Guy, Streets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Invention, Epigrams

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• In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. ... Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.

  Solomon Schechter

  Husband, Father, Sacrifice

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• You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Book, Two

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• Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Trying

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• Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Wish, Philanthropy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.598, Wordsworth Editions

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• Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Belgium, British

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• The best things in life are . . . Annoying.

  Grumpy Cat

  Things In Life, Best Things In Life, Best Things

  Grumpy Cat (2014). “The Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations from Grumpy Cat”, p.50, Chronicle Books

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• For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Icons, Dating, Deployment

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• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  Aaron Levie

  Thinking, Would Be, Kind

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• I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Son, Guitar, Play

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.

  Ron Pope

  Reason, Stage, Said

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• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  Zara Phillips

  People, Looks, Paper

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• The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

  Matt Stone

  Hipster, Pride, Movement

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

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• I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

  Mike White

  Nice, Feels, Persons

  Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!

  Duncan Jones

  Alarms, Would Be, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Thoughtful, Might, Pausing

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• What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.

  Mark Hart

  People, Want, Grows

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• Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Sex, Joy

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.163

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