logo

Quotes About Annoyance

There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes.
~ Paul Theroux
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
~ Darby Conley
She's being stupid and she's sure she's being very clever, and that's a nuisance, but I don't think I hate her.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Oh no. A leaf blower. The easiest way to witness the easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human using a leaf blower. With this machine, the man was saying, I will murder all quiet. I will destroy the aural plane. And I will do so with a machine that performs a task far less efficiently than I could with a rake.
~ Dave Eggers
Oh yeah," said Annabelle. "If you want to drive yourself nuts spend a couple days zooming around country roads with Mr. Speedy while he drones on and on about some dead writer no one but him has ever heard of." "Sounds delightful," replied Chapman. "Sort of like gnawing off one's arm for sport." "Caleb
~ David Baldacci
After I'm dead, I suspect very little will get on my nerves, even that annoying noise the neighbors make with their leaf blower.
~ Woody Allen
You'll hate me, but I don't like pets. Naturally, I don't like being bitten and I hate being shed on, licked, or barked at.
~ Woody Allen
This is the question that nags me. National mourning, as advocated by Black Lives Matter, is a mode of intervention and interruption that might itself be assimilated into the category of public annoyance. This is altogether possible; but also possible is the recognition that it's a lack of feeling for another that is our problem. Grief, then, for these deceased others might align some of us, for the first time, with the living.
~ Claudia Rankine
goddam upset me." She
~ Clifford Irving
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
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~ Unknown
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
Don't take it personally," Call said. "Lots of people find me really annoying. It's not just you.
~ Holly Black
What is it about people casually eating apples that's so infuriating? There's nothing inherently aggravating about someone eating grapes or an orange, but an apple?
~ Jen Lancaster
By the end of the afternoon, she had acquired a different, unprintable adjective for him.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The most annoying thing about the couple of times that I worked in office is that when you show up in the morning you say hi to everyone and then for some reason, you have to continue to greet these people all day every time you see them.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
~ Kurt Braunohler
I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
~ Mark Twain
Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges, Natalie grumbled.
~ Peter Lerangis
What? Arseholes like him give me a headache, and I've already got a big enough one to begin with. If you ask me, he's watched too many episodes of Line of Duty.
~ Peter Robinson