Annoying Quotes - Page 15

• Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Temptation, Gardening, Faces

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• The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

  Bayard Taylor

  Fool, Wells, Blockheads

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• Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

  John Scalzi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. Otherwise you may never become a mom.

  Ann Coulter

  Mom, Lying, Gun

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• I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Book, Annoyed, Assuming

  "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.

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• Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

  Maureen Dowd

  Optimism, Attention, Perpetual

  "Liberties; Colin Powell Rules!". www.nytimes.com. September 17, 1995.

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• The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

  Stella Benson

  Law, Silence, Likes

  Stella Benson (2005). “This Is the End”, p.42, 1st World Publishing

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• But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

  Jane Porter

  Office, Mind, May

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• People have an annoying tendency to compare shoe prices with the cost of other things. They might say, 'Wow - those shoes cost as much as a sofa!' Well, this may be true, but the comparison is so silly. After all, you can't wear a sofa.

  Mimi Pond

  Silly, Shoes, People

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.

  Bennett Madison

  Father, Heart, Player

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• Do you think," Maxon asked, "that I could still call you 'my dear'?" "Not a chance," I whispered. "I'll keep trying. I don't have it in me to give up." And I believed him. It was annoying to think he'd press that issue. "Did you call all of them that?" I nodded my head toward the rest of the room. "Yes, and they all seemed to like it." "That is the exact reason why I don't.

  Kiera Cass

  Giving Up, Thinking, Issues

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.59, HarperCollins

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• Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

  Neal Stephenson

  Courses

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was slumped next to him. He didn't pay any attention to me, but kept snickering as he drove. It was annoying. I had PMS and a test this morning. Boy, had he picked the wrong girl.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Girl, Morning, Boys

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Angel, Men

  Diary entry regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, in July 1924. "Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book edited by W. H. Lewis, p. 97, 1966.

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• it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

  Karl Pilkington

  Squirrels, People, The End Of The Day

  Karl Pilkington (2007). “Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington”, p.62, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, Insult, Ability

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• Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.

  Graeme Simsion

  Cricket Match, People, May

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The on and off thing is kind of annoying, isn't it? First with Cole, now with Gavin. "Maybe you need a tune up." I rolled my eyes. "I'll just pop into the supernatural ability repair shop sometime tomorrow." He grinned, his fingers tracing the line of my jaw.

  Gena Showalter

  Eye, Lines, Firsts

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• Annabeth's voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her--a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.

  Rick Riordan

  Voice, Together, Annabeth

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• So," I (Percy) said glumly. "We're going to get a ride from your brother, huh?" Artemis's silver eyes gleamed. "Yes, boy. You see, Bianca di Angelo is not the only one with an annoying brother. It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Eye, Boys

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• Wraith shoved his hands in his jeans' pockets. "How long before we consider you overdue and mount a rescue party?" "Never." Reaver shrugged into his shirt. "If I don't come back, it is because I'm either dead or in a situation that's too dangerous to get me out of." "Oh," Sin said brightly-and sarcastically. "You mean like the situation Harvester is in." Seminus demons were annoying no matter what gender. "Yes. Like that." She punched him lightly in the shoulder. "Good. Glad we're clear. Try to come back soon or we'll come after you.

  Larissa Ione

  Party, Mean, Hands

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• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  Warren Farrell

  Believe, Equality

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• Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, Graduation, Children

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.51, New Press, The

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• I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of.

  John Mulaney

  Running, Children, Drinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city.

  Vannevar Bush

  Writing, Talking, Land

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