Annoyed Quotes - Page 2

• The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

  Alonzo Church

  Choices, Looks, Might

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• I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

  Alexa Vega

  Movie, Thinking, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Pleasure, Refuge

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

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• Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

  Alain de Botton

  Anxiety, Political, Levels

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• After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

  Ethel Waters

  Cheer, Fear, Years

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• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  A. N. Wilson

  Inspirational, Writing, Honey

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• It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

  Jonathan Davis

  People, Challenges, Sound

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• No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

  Norman Lamm

  Religious, May, Facts

  Norman Lamm (2006). “Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought”, p.122, KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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• Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Song, Fate, Guitar

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• What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  People, Arrogance, Annoying

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  Andre Gide

  Bores You, Literature, Want

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

  Julie Walters

  People, Mind, Actors

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

  William Kunstler

  New York, Law, Annoying

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  People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.

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• All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

  Graham Norton

  Home, Doors, People

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• The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

  Joe Rogan

  Trying, Annoying, Comic

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• I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

  Brandon Routh

  Grateful, People, Attention

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• All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

  Meryl Streep

  Perfect, Attention, Annoying

  "Meryl Streep on "Marvin's Room"". Interview with Henri Béhar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Enemy, Towers

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.21

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• I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

  Hilary Duff

  Dad, Parent, Wish

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• Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Apples, Idiot, Ends

  "The Seattle Massacre : The Ripper Case Series". Book by J. J. Knight (p. vii), 2011.

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• I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

  Moliere

  Vices, Annoying, Virtue

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• People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.

  Howie Mandel

  People, World, Annoying

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• I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

  Toni Morrison

  Smile, People, Understanding

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

  Piers Anthony

  Light, Waiting, Potters

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