Annoying Quotes - Page 24

• To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying!

  Skrillex

  Real, Evil, Joy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.

  Chris Black

  People, Wife, Flight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Passages

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.120, New Victoria Publishers

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• Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Forever, Week

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• Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Distance, Light

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.83

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• If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don't ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.

  Tiger Woods

  Baseball, Moving, Player

  "No match for Tiger / Woods - and heckler - too much for Love to overcome" by Brian Murphy, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2004.

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• I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Children, Writing, Character

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

  Pink

  Thinking, Flattery, Imitation

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• Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

  Joseph Sobran

  Dream, Lying, Giving

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• There's nothing that annoys me more than people being horrible to my mates.

  Louis Tomlinson

  People, Mates, Horrible

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• I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.

  Mark Teixeira

  Two, Watches, Needs

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• I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

  Asa Larsson

  Children, Father, Book

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• Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Law, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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• Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Years, Apathy, Doe

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• 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Suicidal, Perfectly Good

  "Roger Ebert On Why 3D Movies Suck" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2010.

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• I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying... my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Goal, Trying, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.

  Neal Shusterman

  Revelations, Convenient

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Fighting, Trying, Pumps

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Order, Gnats, Darkness

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• For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

  Honore de Balzac

  Pain, Shadow, World

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history.

  Sarah Vowell

  Depressing, Art, Years

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• I guess my main worry is that people will start hating what I hate about myself. I worry that everyone will think I am really annoying and just want me to shut up. Which would make so much sense because I annoy myself... I guess I want people to know that if they are annoyed with me, I get it, it's totally cool. Please forgive me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Feels, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.76, Oxford University Press

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• I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• I'm never hard on people just because they annoy me on the show. I'm not emotional when I'm professional. Do I think there are people on the show who need to go home sooner than they do? Yes. I do. but I'm there to be professional and to be a judge and to give them my advice and my help and I take my job really seriously.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Jobs, Home, Emotional

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