Bothered Quotes - Page 12

• He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Peace, Paris, Special

  Song: He Went To Paris, 1973

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• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  Wayne Rooney

  Player, Mirrors, Games

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• Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  Wayne Rooney

  Player, Games, Training

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• I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

  Emeli Sande

  Want, Categories, No Point

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• When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

  Mark Kozelek

  Girl, Things In Life, Inspired

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2014.

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• For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Temptation, Bears, Dangerous

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• When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

  Marco Rubio

  Issues, Senate, Majors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

  Rajneesh

  Blessing, Ordinary, Different

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• ...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has to distinguish two subvarieties. Type 2a physicists explain why they are not bothered. Their explanations tend either to miss the point entirely (like Born's to Einstein) or to contain physical assertions that can be shown to be false. Type 2b are not bothered and refuse to explain why.

  David Mermin

  Science, Two, Missing

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• I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Athlete, Mma, Guy

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• I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, America, Poetry

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• If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Wine, Thinking

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• No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.

  Doris Lessing

  Destroyed

  Doris Lessing (2003). “A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap”, p.142, Broadview Press

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• Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Real, Civilization, Busy

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Not Always So", p. 95, 2002.

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• The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.

  Peg O'Connor

  Empowering, Doe, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  People, Profound, Television

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• Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.

  Warren Murphy

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, Writing, Ifs

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• There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assistants, although we're growing a little bit now. He read the [The Hunger Games] book and loved it, and told me I should read it. He had been a fan of the Gregor books. So, I read it and couldn't put it down and couldn't stop thinking about it. I really became obsessed with the thought of producing it, and was completely bothered by the idea that anybody but me could produce it.

  Nina Jacobson

  Smart, Book, Thinking

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

  Alan Sillitoe

  War, Government, My Own

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

  Harrison Ford

  Special, Proximity, Feels

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realise how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I'm one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don't apply to me.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Looks, Helping

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Gordon Brown is crushingly dull. I'd advocate a revolution'". Interview with Nick Duerden, www.independent.co.uk. May 8, 2009.

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• I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.

  Erik Naggum

  Stupid, People, Facts

  Re: A draft business plan for free software LISP vendors (Usenet article), groups.google.com. March 7, 1999.

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• I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough.

  Bert McCracken

  Song, Waiting, Fans

  "Second coming" by Stephen Downie, The Courier-Mail, May 20, 2005.

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• Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

  Julia Sawalha

  Strong, Children, Needs

  "'Being a mum has never bothered me too much but I love being an auntie': Julia Sawalha on kids, family and Ab Fab". Interview with Christine Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.

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