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
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
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
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos 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
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus Copy Share Image
Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently… — John Flanagan 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
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
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In… — E. M. Forster 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
“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
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence;… — Mark Twain 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Plautus 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
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
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
“What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.” — James Fallows Copy Share Image
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly,… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins 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
