Annoying Quotes - Page 7

• Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

  Kevin Drum

  Giving, Answers, Speech

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• The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Discipline, Demand, Trouble

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• It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

  Evan Davis

  Gay, Thinking, Views

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview With Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

  Audre Lorde

  Firsts, Littles, Courageous

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• You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.

  Guy Pearce

  People, Wonder, Envious

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

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• Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

  Josh Lieb

  Gratitude, Sometimes

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• Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

  Robert Spencer

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Ridicule

  Robert Spencer (2006). “The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion”, p.13, Regnery Publishing

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• Can you really put a price on annoying two religions at once?

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Two Religions

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• I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

  Rachel Bilson

  Gps, Way, Accents

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• New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

  David Letterman

  New Orleans, Earth

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• If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.

  Dorothy Cottrell

  People, Annoyed, Trying

  Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”

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• Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

  Kris Carr

  Cancer, Deals, Cellulite

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Interview with Erin Zammett Ruddy, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.

  Martin Zwilling

  Jobs, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

  Auberon Waugh

  People, World, Sacred

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.

  Helen Mirren

  Girlfriend, Ridiculous, Outrageous

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• The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.

  Gene Brown

  Annoying Things, Modest, Brag

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• I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Broadway, Initiative, Members

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• So it [3D] is something I'm still learning, it's fresh, so if the budget allows I'll do it again and just see how far it goes because it's the frontier, it's more interesting. It's still expensive, the projection system can be annoying sometimes, it's not really regulated or perfected yet, so it's still expensive. If I do a lower budget I'll just do 2D, but if the budget allows I think I'll try 3D.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

  Alissa Nutting

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

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• The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

  Dave Barry

  People, Accomplishment, Protest

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes its fun, sometimes its annoying.

  Judah Friedlander

  Fun, Sometimes

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. May 10, 2011.

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• The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.

  Lucretius

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 18,

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• Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Action

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• The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

  Moliere

  Art, Errors, Giving

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• I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.

  Frank Stella

  Thinking, Annoyed, Competition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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