Obnoxious Quotes - Page 7

• White Hot Concentration is the unappreciated fruit of hard ligting, especially squats. When your in the squat rack, with a serious amount of weight overhead, your life literally depends on maintaining concentration. You learn to block out the swirling images in the mirror, the obnoxious chatter of the people next to you, the fat drop of sweat running down your nose. Once you've mastered this concentration in the weight room, duplicating it on the race course is relatively easy. Champions have only a few things in common. One weapon they all possess is White Hot Concentration.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Block, White

  4 Copy quote

• I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

  Al McGuire

  Team, Personality, Arrogant

  4 Copy quote

• Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  People, Political, Als

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.245

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.

  William Westney

  Practice, Healthy, Sound

  William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.

  Angel Haze

  New York, Michigan, Straightforward

  " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

  Walker Percy

  Guarantees, Uneducated

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.82, Open Road Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

  Hugo Black

  Security Systems, Government, Views

  Concurring opinion, Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298, 1957.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

  Simon Cowell

  Air, Tape, Hours

  Playboy Interview, February 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".

  Jack Cafferty

  War, Criminals, November

  "Cafferty Shows His Love For Rumsfeld". Crooks & Liars, November 7, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because its obnoxious.

  Mircea Monroe

  Sick, Stories, Auditions

  4 Copy quote

• Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

  Harvey Pekar

  Trying, Aggressive

  4 Copy quote

• People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Two, Excess

  4 Copy quote

• I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

  Michael Shannon

  Growing Up, Acting, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• Boys can be disgusting. You can't leave us alone for any length of time because we will burn something, blow something up or paint something. We're just obnoxious.

  Tim Allen

  Blow, Boys, Paint

  "Tim Allen Talks LAST MAN STANDING, Classic Sitcoms, Stand-Up, and the Future of the TOY STORY Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 3, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well my chocolate is so good I could sell it in an obnoxious prism shape.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Chocolate, Shapes, Prisms

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2013

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mind, May, Causes

  4 Copy quote

• ...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

  Josef Pieper

  Eye, Men, Giving

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Hurt, Husband

  5 Copy quote

• Well, I am not always joking, sometimes I am serious. But some people always expect you to be funny. If you were like you are on stage, you would be obnoxious. With the jokes and the putdowns, I would need to take a break... juggle something.

  Dom Irrera

  People, Would Be, Needs

  "Dom Irrera...Dominating Stand-up". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people talk about wanting to have children someday, what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff.

  Paul Reiser

  Cute, Baby, Children

  4 Copy quote

• The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Successful, Guy, Hollywood

  7 Copy quote

• I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Cameras, Comedy

  7 Copy quote

• If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice or obnoxious, you might as well marry the wealthy one.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Beautiful, Nice

  4 Copy quote

• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

  38 Copy quote