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Quotes About Annoyance

Jij bent getraind in uren stilzitten, terwijl een heel mierenleger over je heen marcheert en allebei je benen slapen... Jij hebt het maar makkelijk. Jij kunt tenminste nog door dat gaatje kijken!' Will keek hem geërgerd aan. 'Wat moet het erg zijn om jou te zijn,' fluisterde hij gemeen. 'Zo'n groot lijf vol kriebelende mieren, en dan nog geen kijkgaatje ook!' 'Ach, hou je bek,' zei Arnaut. Iets slimmers wist hij niet te verzinnen.
~ John Flanagan
Imagination?' said Holmes with some annoyance. 'And are the mere facts not sufficient in themselves? Must they be dressed up with French phrases dimly remembered from one's distant schooldays and hurriedly – though all too often inadequately – checked with an elementary grammar before dispatch to the publisher?
~ John Hall
One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that were both generalised and existential (why is he like that?) and also highly specific (how hard is it to remember to put the top back on the yoghurt?).
~ John Lanchester
If he couldn't be alone, then he couldn't think of anyone he'd rather have irritating him.
~ John Marco
There's nothing like being annoyed by different sentiences to make you really appreciate your own.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Patty Flood and her good mood were starting to get on my nerves. Her mood was so good it was almost a physical thing, a monkey on a leash that she let leap all over the furniture, delighting only its owner.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
You tell us about your other friends. You feel guilty speaking about them, but you are annoyed, frustrated. You don't always trust their motives. You feel pressured by their demands on you. You're worn out by the effort it takes to be with them, to feign interest in their stream of never-ending problems.
~ Aryn Kyle
Once you've sat in a room annoying Derek Jacobi while he's trying to do his crossword, you're prepped for working with the greats.
~ Nicola Walker
I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
~ Mireille Enos
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!
~ Matt Mullenweg
Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye. Swich talkyng is nat worth a boterflye
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Nothing worse... nothing worse that to be stuck somewhere with some married a-hole and have to listen to him tell you about his f***in' kids... Let me tell ya something, folks... nobody cares about your children, okay? Nobody cares about your children. I speak for everyone. I've been appointed by the rest of the group to inform you we don't care about your children – that's why they're your children, so you can care about them and we don't have to bother.
~ George Carlin
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life
~ George Eliot
H]aving early had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged for her peculiar satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and annoyance at that fact. And she had already come to take life very much as a comedy in which she had a proud, nay, a generous resolution not to act the mean or treacherous part.
~ George Eliot
If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
~ Katie Couric
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
~ Jim Carrey
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.
~ James Lafferty
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
~ Samuel Butler
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
~ Lizzie Borden
[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.
~ Luis von Ahn
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely different destination of Dreamy Contentment.
~ Marian Keyes
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
~ Mark Twain