At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance — Tom Holt 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the… — D. W Brogan Copy Share Image
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
“Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.” — Hugh Lofting Copy Share Image
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance!” — Alice Provensen Copy Share Image
So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance. — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
“Drunks are an asset on the front line, the army taught me. In the air, we’re a nuisance.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. — Sally Stanford Copy Share Image
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
