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Quotes About Frustration

Mr. Ray, you yelled at it again, didn't you? I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff.
~ Kim Harrison
Tagged by a whiny little vamp," he said, gesturing. "Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.
~ Kim Harrison
Make up a recipe for a successful revolution. Take large masses of injustice, resentment and frustration. Put them in a week or failing hegemon. Sir in misery for a generation or two, until the heat rises. Throw in destabilizing circumstances to taste. A tiny pinch of event to catalyze the whole. Once the main goal of the revolution is achieved, cool instantly to institutionalize the new order.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Frank's French was worse than no French at all, like listening to someone attack the language with a hatchet.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Always they argued. Neither conceded anything, no compromises were made, nothing was ever accomplished. They argued using the same words to mean different things, and scarcely even spoke to one another. Once it had been different, very long ago, when they had argued in the same language, and understood each other.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But of course no one was listening. No one understands us, not ever.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Why don't you like it when you can't say why?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Just because the need was urgent and her case was good, that didn't mean anything would change.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.
~ Kingsley Amis
The bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation, Dixon thought. 'You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation', he said.
~ Kingsley Amis
Thing is, I was having no luck. I couldn't even get molested in this town.
~ Kirk Read
No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.
~ Knut Hamsun
Well, bless my soul, what stupid creatures one has to mix with in this world!
~ Knut Hamsun
When I got outside, I came to a standstill and said loudly in the open street, as I clenched my hands: "I will tell you one thing, my good Lord God, you are a bungler!" and I nod furiously, with set teeth, up to the clouds; "I will be hanged if you are not a bungler.
~ Knut Hamsun
Jeg har en bog i Hovedet, men den vil ikke ud, den Satan.
~ Knut Hamsun
Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.
~ Kresley Cole
You are so naive, it physically aggrieves me.
~ Kresley Cole
You do not mind my humor?" "Not at all. I've not laughed like this …" His brows drew together. "I think I've never laughed like this." "Usually I exasperate people. And I jest at inappropriate times. Such as during executions. Freya says 'tis my gift and my bane to frustrate others." "I like your manner, Reginleit. Life is long without humor.
~ Kresley Cole
Yo, Dekko, who do I gotta blow around here to get a shower?
~ Kresley Cole
Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions:
~ Kresley Cole
We'll all have an ice-cream cake to celebrate! Except for we don't have a freezer!
~ Kresley Cole
Nix and Emma: 'Looks like you just found a new talent.' 'Great. Why couldn't I be good at underwater origami or something?
~ Kresley Cole
He clenched his jaw and forced himself to even his tone. No' necessarily. It's just that you'll be doing it three or four times a day. With a man of your advanced years? Advanced years? By God, I am going to throttle her.
~ Kresley Cole
The two of them were acting like such...guys. I wanted to strangle them.
~ Kresley Cole