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Quotes About Inconvenience

Her father had been forced to cancel her clarinet lessons after the neighbors complained about the practicing.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Romanticism is not a quality I despise, but it is inconvenient in a butler.)
~ Elizabeth Peters
check-cashing place that wasn't open today. No leaf peepers
~ Alison Gaylin
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
~ W. C. Fields
Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.
~ Hubert de Givenchy
It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.
~ Brian Bonsall
But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.
~ Keanu Reeves
The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary act, and it should not be granted to one person.
~ Ron Dellums
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables.
~ Roald Dahl
Citizens are urged to tolerate cheerfully any minor inconvenience this may cause them; your right of privacy will be respected in every way possible; your right of free movement may be interrupted temporarily, but full economic restitution will be made.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
~ Robert Fulghum
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. - Robert Fulghum
~ Robert Fulghum
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat or your house is on fire, you've got a problem. Everything else is merely an inconvenience.
~ Robert Fulghum
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. "Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer.
~ Robert Fulghum
Now... what I feel these in my brain is just like... some kind of foreign body... like having a very thin little eyelash in your eye. You feel generally okay, but that eye with the last in it-you can't get it off your mind for a second.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
No, I don't go to that restaurant anymore. No body goes there. It's too crowded.
~ Yogi Berra
We moderns have an arsenal of tranquillisers and painkillers at our disposal, but our expectations of ease and pleasure, and our intolerance of inconvenience and discomfort, have increased to such an extent that we may well suffer from pain more than our ancestors ever did.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.' A
~ Yuval Noah Harari
can't drive off because of the flat tires,
~ Delores Fossen
Does my brother's presence inconvenience you?" he asked the priest. "Not at all," the twitching man replied. Father Berold's face was still for an instant. This time the curve of his lips was natural, and filled with compassion. "I recognize a fellow sufferer. I have added him to my prayers." Faucon eyed the priest for a long moment. Of such mettle were saints forged.
~ Denise Domning
I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?
~ Derek Landy
When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.
~ Amy Hill Hearth