Bothered Quotes - Page 16

• People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

  Marlo Thomas

  People, Pearls, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Writing, Years, Work Out

  "A History of Classical Physics: From Antiquity to the Quantum". Book by John Desmond Bernal, p. 116, 1997.

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• Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family and indeed all the suffering in the world isn't caused by any omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, Mean, Helping Others

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Jay Allison, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

  Kevin Costner

  Hard Work, Schedules, Hard

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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• I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

  Angus Young

  Running, School, Kids

  "Q & A With Angus Young of AC/DC". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 17, 2000.

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• There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

  Eli Pariser

  Self, Media, Two

  "Eli Pariser: What Search Engines Are Hiding From Us". "KPBS Midday Edition" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. May 23, 2011.

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• The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Heart, Sight

  "Eric: A Novel of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.

  Hannah Arendt

  Stupid, Philosophy, Exercise

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt, p. 13, 1978.

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• Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.

  Georges Bernanos

  Daughter, Dark, Past

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League.

  Alex Ferguson

  Team, League, Expectations

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.

  Roger Zelazny

  Mean, Important, Arrogant

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• Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

  Madeline Kahn

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Madeline Kahn, on The Road Back to Broadway; At the National Theatre, Remaking Billie Dawn for A New 'Born Yesterday'" by Joe Brown, The Washington Post, October 26, 1988.

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• I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Games, Riding

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unity, May, Human Nature

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