Famous Quotes & Sayings

What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!

Kevin Barry

What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of like an apprenticeship. And in lots of ways, it's a far harder form.

Douglas Booth

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

Peter Capaldi

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

Clint Eastwood

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

Adam Carolla

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

Alonzo Church

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Dylan Thomas

We were just annoyed at being kicked off Main Street.

Rick Mercer

A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.

Michael Kiwanuka

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

Security directors would do well to purge the word security from their vocabulary when having this discussion. To anyone outside of the security profession, security is an annoying layer of cost and inconvenience. The benefits of security should be the point of your presentation. If we can identify what benefits a company can enjoy with appropriate security measures, then we can have a useful discussion of ROI.

Reggie Watts

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

William Saroyan

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Oscar Wilde

Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures

Oscar Wilde

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Jalal Talabani

I believe that the reaction should be one of public support and public welcome. Even the inhabitants complained and are annoyed by the delinquent operations.

Basically, he's the older boy who gets annoyed with his little brothers.

Dambisa Moyo

China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.

China has to calculate how to respond to not annoy the (Taiwan) populace and not fall into Chen's trap. Chen wants a strong reaction from China. They are watching what the United States does next, what the opposition parties do next, and then they will decide what to do.

Shoshannah Stern

I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder telling me how to act, so I don't go in and tell them how to write.

Michel Faber

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

I guess I'm stuck in the middle. I can't say he's doing a bad job. I think there's this annoyance with all this other stuff.

John Lloyd Young

I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.

Eve Best

I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

Hopefully, we'll see all our favorite bounty hunters from Empire and others including Aura Sing searching the galaxy in the hunt for the scalps of any remaining Jedi, ... Maybe we'll see how Yoda ends up on Dagobah and what Alderaan does to annoy the Empire sufficiently to have it destroyed.

Bobby Frasor

He's really annoying defensively. He's a little bug, a little jitterbug. He's got those quick feet, moving around. He gets into you, and he's strong. When he's defending you, you've got to be on top of your game or else he'll rip it or get a stop.

Most of these situations are handled at patrol level and include phone harassment or letters and notes that are mostly just annoying in nature, ... But when it elevates to following in public or violating a restraining order it can become a felony.

Shelley Hennig

My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.

Melissa Ordway

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.