Annoying Quotes - Page 17

• Paternity, paternity. Let's think about this. This discriminates against the childless. So you get a year off because you produce a brat. If anything if you have a child you should work more because your brat's going to annoy me at the restaurants.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Babies cry, make noise, go here and there. But it annoys me when a baby cries in church and there are those who say he needs to go out. The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Voice, Church

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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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• Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Moving, Cheesy, Asking

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• Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
  [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]

  Plautus

  Delay

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• Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Nomenclature, Waste, Pedants

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.186, Baen Books

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• Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Hurt, Taken

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• I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Book, Taken

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• Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Missing, Language, Precision

  Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.173, Wendy Lamb Books

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Motherhood, Years

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• I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Guy, Things I Love

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I had sort of discovered it by accident as a child or a young adult when you realize you have a special skill that you don't really have any use for you, and you just take it out at parties or to amuse your friends or to annoy your girlfriends.

  John Lloyd Young

  Girlfriend, Children, Party

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• I never wanted to be the annoying kid on set.

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster

  Kids, Wanted

  "Game Of Thrones Q&A: Thomas Brodie-Sangster Talks Jojen Reed". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. May 1, 2013.

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• The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for and admiration of literature, and that, the enthusiasm and admiration, can revitalize the reader’s love for the art form. I’m grateful for How Literature Saved My Life because the book has made me think again – and for the first time in a while – 'Well, what is it we do when we read?' It’s a damned annoying question, but it needs to be asked now and then, and Shields has asked it in a way I find resonant and moving.

  Andre Alexis

  Art, Book, Grateful

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• The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

  Scott Sanders

  May, Unexpected

  Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.14, Indiana University Press

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• Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

  John Burroughs

  Eight, Next, Miles

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.47, Syracuse University Press

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• I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

  John Muir

  Blessed, Rocks, People

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.78, Orbis Books

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• Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Causes, Situation

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• People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Order, People

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• Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Way

  "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" by Henry Allen, www.washingtonpost.com. February 28, 2008.

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