Bother Quotes - Page 27

• After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, Way, Normal

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• In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Fate, Sacrifice

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• You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.

  Samuel Beckett

  Literature, Form, Satisfied

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.150, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Bill Murray ‘retired’? Say it ain't so". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.today.com. August 16, 2006.

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• I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

  Julie Burchill

  New Year, Party, Thinking

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• There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Alcohol, Owl

  Edward Lear (2009). “The Book of Nonsense”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

  Karl Kraus

  Dark, Doe, Actors

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Mammy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Character, Wind, Laughing

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.16, Kodansha America

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• It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Beauty, Beautiful, Looking Good

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• A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

  Edward Weston

  Faults, Lifetime, Wells

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.

  Jules Furthman

  Death, People, Funeral

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• People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book.

  Joshua Meyrowitz

  Book, Reading, Media

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• Basically, it's somebody who got stuck having to interview me who really wants to be a novelist, so they're writing these novellas and I was like, "It's not true, that didn't happen, they just made all that up! Why don't they just go ahead and be a novelist instead of bothering with interviewing me?"

  Christian Bale

  Writing, Novelists, Want

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

  Kanye West

  Mean, Criticism, Safe

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• First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

  Jay Maisel

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Criticism, World, Way

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• I tell my assistant “I'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother me”

  Scott Borchetta

  Jesus, Assistants, Busy

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• In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Together, Special, Want

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• Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!

  Walter Raleigh

  Cheer, Giving, Abuse

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• Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

  Gina Barreca

  Tattoo, Pain, Mean

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• Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.

  P. L. Travers

  Children, Book, Men

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• To me playing third base and left field and moving all over the place, it doesn't bother me because I still have to grab that bat and hit no matter where I play.

  Albert Pujols

  Moving, Play, Matter

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• I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.

  Bill Murray

  Real, Believe, Giving

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