Annoying Quotes - Page 6

• Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  House, Tree, Retreat

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.548, Simon and Schuster

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• Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

  Lewis Carroll

  Boys, Littles, Sneezing

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 6 (1865)

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• There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Home, Cities

  Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

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• If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.

  Pearl Cleage

  Thinking, Big Sister, Reason

  Pearl Cleage (1997). “What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day”

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• I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

  Tom Robbins

  Long, Water, Amanda

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.12, Bantam

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• --but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

  Charles Stross

  Heart, Sleep, Personality

  Charles Stross (2008). “Saturn's Children”, p.21, Penguin

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• With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Roots, Meditation

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• 3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must I spend my days among them?' But have I ever said such things aloud? No. I have been nothing but generous to them, and kept these thoughts to myself. And how have they repaid me? Have they been grateful or kind? Ho NO!

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Grief, Grateful, Years

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• What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

  Henning Mankell

  Suicide, Morning, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jan 07, 2013

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• This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Fun, Sibling

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• I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Struggle, Laughing, Joy

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2008). “Mogworld”, p.14, Dark Horse Comics

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• If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

  Dave Eggers

  School, Thinking, Should Have

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• It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

  Rob Sheffield

  Pain, Loss, Opposites

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.190, Crown Archetype

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• I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

  Neal Stephenson

  Want, Shut Up, Freeze

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.148, Spectra

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• There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nice, Intelligent, Ideas

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• Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters she felt whenever she saw him at work—something like butterflies in her stomach, it was actually quite annoying; no more stress; no more fights in the library; and definitely no more sexy I’m-gonna-kiss-you-now-woman blue-eyed heated gazes. She had no idea why she just thought that.

  Julie James

  Sexy, Stress, Butterfly

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.113, Penguin

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• What's your name?" what?" i asked, squinting at the light. your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me. you know my name." I want you to tell me." Rose. Rose Hathaway." Do you know your birthday?" Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?" Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine.

  Richelle Mead

  Stupid, Thinking, Light

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• I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Swim, Tides

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Men, Survival, Urban

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• Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

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• Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking About You, Want, Eric Northman

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1209, Penguin

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• The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

  Suzanne Collins

  Positive, Death, Strong

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.748, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Brother, Love You

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• Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

  Michelle Sagara

  Dragons, Cuisine, Theory

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.89, LUNA

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