Annoyed famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?
-- Abbi Glines -
Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.
-- Abram Hoffer -
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
-- Alain de Botton -
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
-- Alain de Botton -
I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.
-- Alan Schwarz -
He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.
-- Albert Speer -
Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.
-- Alex Cox -
I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again
-- Alexa Vega -
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.
-- Alonzo Church -
During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.
-- Amanda Hocking -
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
-- Andre Gide -
Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.
-- Andy Rooney -
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
-- Ann Brashares -
What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.
-- Ann Coulter -
Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.
-- Anna Benson -
Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.
-- Anne Bishop -
Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.
-- Asa Gray -
Vee: And I'm not going to let you sit at home all afternoon with your sour face on. Nora: I don't have a sour face. Vee: Yes, you do. And you're wearing it right now. Nora: This is my annoyed face. You woke me up at six in the morning!
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
-- Brandon Routh -
The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
-- Caitlin Moran -
I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say 'Pass the salt'. It could mean, you know, 'Can I have some salt?' or it could mean, 'I love you.' It could mean, 'I'm very annoyed with you'. Really, the list could go on and on. Words are little bombs, and they have a lot of energy inside them.
-- Christopher Walken -
First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. []  I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.â€Â
-- Dan Savage -
When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.
-- Daniel Keyes -
If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.
-- David Bronstein -
Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.' 'I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?' 'She's three months.' 'She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?
-- Derek Landy -
People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?
-- Domhnall Gleeson -
If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.
-- Dorothy Cottrell -
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.
-- Eve Best -
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
-- Francois Fenelon -
Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!
-- Frank Lampard -
I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.
-- Frank Stella -
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
-- Gene Tierney -
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
-- George Sanders -
It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.
-- Grace Slick -
If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
-- Grace Slick -
I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.
-- Harriet Quimby -
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
-- Hilary Duff -
People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
-- Howie Mandel -
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.
-- J. Robert Lennon -
How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.
-- James Richardson -
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
-- Jane Pauley -
I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.†I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.
-- Jean Plaidy -
Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten." My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look. Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right. "It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven." "Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.
-- John Graves -
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
-- Jonathan Davis -
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.
-- Josephine Tey -
I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.
-- Julie Walters -
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
-- Karl Pilkington -
When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.
-- Keegan Allen -
There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.
-- Kerry Greenwood -
I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]
-- Kerry Katona -
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.
-- Lalla Ward -
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.
-- Lauren F. Winner -
I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.
-- Len Goodman -
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
-- Lev Grossman -
I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.
-- Lisa Lutz -
We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
-- Louise Jameson -
Ever notice how seldom we lose control when frustrated by our boss, but how often we do when annoyed by friends or family?
-- Lynn G. Robbins -
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio -
So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.
-- Margaret Stohl -
I feel an extremely annoyed thunderstorm nearby," Kade warned. "Actually, I'm the one annoyed. The thunderstorm could go either way." - Storm Glass
-- Maria V. Snyder -
An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.
-- Mark Hart -
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
-- Martin Freeman -
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
-- Mary Barnett Gilson -
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
-- Meryl Streep -
It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
-- Michael Kiwanuka -
I don't like boys. They're kind of annoying.
-- Michelle Wie -
Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though they will probably bleed profusely and will definitely be annoyed.
-- Molly Harper -
I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.
-- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau -
After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.
-- Noel Clarke -
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
-- Norman Lamm -
No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.
-- Owen Feltham -
I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
-- Patricia Heaton -
When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.
-- Paul Lynde -
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.
-- Peter Carey -
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.
-- Peter Medawar -
To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
-- Piers Anthony -
Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.
-- Rands -
The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
-- Randy Harrison -
For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.
-- Richard Bach -
But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.
-- Richie Benaud -
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.
-- Rick Mercer -
I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.
-- Rick Wakeman -
I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.
-- Seth Rogen -
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
-- Slavoj Žižek -
You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you...
-- Stephen Fry -
We met a people who loved it when it was said to them “Fear Allah the most high!“. Today you find people become annoyed at this.
-- Sufyan al-Thawri -
When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner
