I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as… — Jack McConnell Copy Share Image
Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They… — Brandon Marshall Copy Share Image
“Wazza might have been his fall back option but he’d added goals to his nuisance value and was bound to attract interest.” — P.J. Davitt Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn… — Neil Welliver Copy Share Image
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps;… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man has no understanding , he can be taught a few simple tricks nothing more. He is a nuisance, the sooner he… — Dr. Zauius Planet of the apes Copy Share Image
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
“One's body is a nuisance, M. Poirot, especially when it gets the upper hand. One is conscious of nothing else-- whether the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance. — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance. — Augustus Copy Share Image
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances… — Ian Hay Copy Share Image
I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.” — Maija Haavisto Copy Share Image
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
