Nuisance Quotes
90 quotes by 82 authors
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So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
— Frank Carson
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Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
— Neil Welliver
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many…
— Robert K. Merton
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War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.
— John Hay Beith
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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will…
— Amory Lovins
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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
— Mark Twain
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on…
— Yiyun Li
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I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers…
— Montgomery Clift
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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 might be caused…
— Vito Acconci
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
— Augustus
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that…
— Augustus
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It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the…
— Charles Babbage
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
— Margery Allingham
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Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
— Charles Dickens
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Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
— Gustav Holst
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If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no…
— Caroline Myss
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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences…
— Charles de Lint
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Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances…
— Lyndon LaRouche
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