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Quotes About Annoyance

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!
~ Stephen Wright
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.
~ Juliette Binoche
When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.
~ Jacob deGrom
One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.
~ Lucy Worsley
People who drive slow in the left lane on the highway! Are you kidding me? Don't you see everybody passing you, honking and flipping you off? It's not because everyone else is crazy, it's because you're driving slow in the fast lane, you jerk! OMG! It makes me crazy!
~ Rob Riggle
Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.
~ John McEnroe
And I'll stop with the lecture now. I don't like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I'm fascinated by them anyway.
~ Michelle Sagara West
Do you know, Princess, said I with a shade of annoyance, that one should never spurn a repentant sinner, for out of sheer desperation he may become twice as sinful . . .
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her.
~ Milan Kundera
The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.
~ Coheed and Cambria
Intuitive: The word conveys, I think, a diffuse annoyance at our inability to understand how we come by such knowledge.
~ Carl Sagan
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.
~ Terry Pratchett
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.
~ Terry Pratchett
It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.
~ Terry Pratchett
Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!
~ Terry Pratchett
Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn't seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.
~ Terry Pratchett
But he found he rather liked Shadwell. People often did, much to Shadwell's annoyance. The Rajits liked him because he always eventually paid his rent and didn't cause any trouble, and was racist in such a glowering, undirected way that it was quite inoffensive; it was simply that Shadwell hated everyone in the world, regardless of caste, color, or creed, and wasn't going to make any exceptions for anyone. Madame
~ Terry Pratchett
It's yet another thing that irritates me this morning, on top of the fact that I'm hungry. I didn't sleep well, and now the mosquitos have found me. Mosquitos always find me. Whenever I step outside , it's as if they can hear their dinner bell ring, and already I am slapping at my neck and face.
~ Tess Gerritsen
But she couldn't shake off her annoyance at her dad, at her brothers, at Father Donnelly, at every man who presumed to tell a woman what her duty was.
~ Tess Gerritsen
girl like Jennie is like a comfortable fire to the average masculine mind; they gravitate to it, seek its sympathy, yearn to possess it. Hence she was annoyed by many unwelcome attentions.
~ Theodore Dreiser
It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
~ John Lydon
I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.
~ Jonah Hill
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
~ William Boyd
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
~ Kin Hubbard