Nuisance Quotes

90 quotes by 82 authors

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. — Frank Carson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance. — Augustus
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
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
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — Charles Dickens
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst
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
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
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
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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