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Quotes About Annoyance

There's not much to complain about in life - apart from bad Wi-Fi, of course!
~ Jofra Archer
I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.
~ Jessica Lowndes
I dislike cats. I like horses, some monkeys, and sweet dogs that aren't too aggressive. I used to have a wonderful, big cat, and one day I came into the kitchen and it was on the table, ruining all the food we were about to eat. I was so annoyed that I took it to a friend's house in the country.
~ Ennio Morricone
Indeed,' I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed my when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's.
~ Rex Stout
Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood? He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes a good excuse, doesn't it, Neville? Oh, shut up.
~ Richard Matheson
She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her. She was annoyed by sickness. She seemed to regard it as a personal affront.
~ Richard Matheson
He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.
~ Richard Matheson
The nurse who came in to take her blood was the same one who'd taken her blood pressure earlier, and she slapped the flesh on Miss Beryl's arm with some annoyance, as if she'd have preferred it to assume some other shape. Miss Beryl knew just how the woman felt.
~ Richard Russo
Psst. You awake, cher ?" Miranda fought her way up from sleep. "I am now." Annoyance gave way to relief. She wondered why she wans't more startled; it was almost as if she'd expected Etienne to show up. "What do you think you're doing?" "Well, you musta been wishing for me, yeah?" he teased. "'Cause here I am.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. Walk with me," he said. Where to?" I asked suspiciously. Just to the campfire," he said. "I was beginning to feel better, so I thought I would talk with you a bit. You always manage to annoy me." Uh, thanks.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt.
~ Rick Riordan
If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.
~ Rick Riordan
The older Nico got, the more juvenile Percy seemed to him, though Percy was three years older. Nico found his sense of humour equal parts endearing and annoying. He decided to concentrate on the annoying.
~ Rick Riordan
On a bad day, he could only remember Justin Bieber songs, which didn't do anything except give me a headache.
~ Rick Riordan
Uuugggggghhhhh...
~ Rick Riordan
Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again.
~ Rick Riordan
Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!
~ Rick Riordan
Why do you ask me questions to which you already know the answer? She tapped me on the arm with her painted fan. To annoy you, dearest.
~ Kate Elliott
How long could we do this before you started bitching? Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. What? We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know. I looked at him. If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Chloe isn't flirting with that guy," Simon said. "Course not." "I mean it. She's—" I glanced back at him. "I'm not blind. She's only paying enough attention to him to be polite. He's the one flirting, which is bugging her and that's why I'm pissed off. She's trying to eat her fries and he's interrupting." Simon chuckled.
~ Kelley Armstrong
These tedious old fools!
~ William Shakespeare
Even his dog is an asshole.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
~ Geoff Dyer
That's from The Sound of Music," said Jane, then started to hum along, in yet another key. Batty covered her ears and Jeffrey winced. Skye was less delicate. "Jane, be quiet," she said, and Jane was. Aunt Claire now moved on to "Do-Re-Mi," which sounded awful enough to make Hound abandon his exploration of the crutches.
~ Jeanne Birdsall