Bothered Quotes

#1. There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

Anchee Min

#2. When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

William Gibson

#3. Trent sighed, visibly bothered at my admittedly childish behavior, but I was hot, damn it, and needed money, and therefore I was vulnerable to his bribes and his air-conditioned car.

Kim Harrison

#4. Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

William Feather

#5. We need development in the Northern Territory but we don't need it based on something we might get in five years. We don't need it based on something that someone's done a couple of, they haven't even bothered with the back of the beer coaster.

Nigel Scullion

#6. The queen hadn't even bothered to say good-bye. She'd just dashed for the injured Fae warrior, his name like a prayer on her lips. Rowan.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

Lev Grossman

#8. I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

Laura Mvula

#9. I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

Laura Donnelly

#10. No. Not you. But if you're bothered, remind me when I get back - we can talk about your initiation. I like the idea of you kneeling at my feet.

Ellen Connor

#11. I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.

William J. Clinton

#12. When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

Harold Pinter

#13. I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

Ashlee Simpson

#14. It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

Marion Motley

#15. Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

Rajneesh

#16. I was thinking," Yuri said, licking blood from the corner of his mouth, "that since I bothered to save the world, people might shut up during movies.

Katie Kennedy

#17. Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave

Amit Abraham

#18. Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up),

Cecelia Ahern

#19. Hawk wasn't a normal man, nor a man with a virtuous compass, he felt nothing most of the time, no guilt, regret, he flicked people off like gnats neither bothered nor caring about them.

V. Theia

#20. I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.

Robert M. Edsel

#21. What bothered me most, though, was that I couldn't fix anything. I couldn't control anything. It was like driving a bumper car without a steering wheel. I kept getting slammed, and I just had to sit there and hold on tight.

Katherine Applegate

#22. we in the West have not bothered to develop an effective counternarrative because from the outset we have denied that Islamic extremism is in any way related to Islam. We persist in focusing on the violence and not on the ideas that give rise to it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#23. We were bothered by sex because it is a fundamentally disruptive, overwhelming and demented force, strongly at odds with the majority of our ambitions and all but incapable of being discreetly integrated within civilized society.

Alain De Botton

#24. Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

Becki Newton

#25. I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough.

Bert McCracken

#26. Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.

George Carlin

#27. Presumably he would know what the Question to the Ultimate Answer is. It's always bothered me that we never found out." "Think of a number," said the computer, "any number.

Douglas Adams

#28. I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Barbara Corcoran

#29. I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch 'Presumed Innocent' again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else.

Scott Turow

#30. No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

Avi Arad

#31. I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.

Sharon Osbourne

#32. By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.

Stephen Hunter

#33. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

Orit Gadiesh

#34. Women in love are pathetic
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair.

Mie Hansson

#35. Why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

Bob Dylan

#36. For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.

Seneca.

#37. I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise.

Gunter Grass

#38. Please, Decker, nothing says I-can't-be-bothered-trying like a bunch of flowers and a half-assed apology.

Kirsty Dallas

#39. I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

William Hague

#40. It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.

Sheryl Sandberg

#41. And every single thing you ever did that bothered me, is every single thing I miss.

Pleasefindthis

#42. I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

Bob Ainsworth

#43. Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

Louise Nurding

#44. Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.

John Gould

#45. I couldn't let myself depend on him getting me all hot and bothered so I could sing to the throb between my legs. I had no idea how much longer he'd drag me around by the panties, but it surely wouldn't be long enough to make a career.

C.D. Reiss

#46. Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.

Cambria Hebert

#47. I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn't think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn't hold it against them in the long run. We couldn't afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.

Kiera Cass

#48. Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.

Lily King

#49. If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.

Robert Thurman

#50. Howl's very fickle," said Calcifer. "He's only interested until the girl falls in love with him. Then he can't be bothered with her.

Diana Wynne Jones

#51. Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

Chris Matthews

#52. Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

Julie Walters

#53. But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.

Ray Bradbury

#54. Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.
He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.

Brandon Sanderson

#55. Making LDL the "bad cholesterol" oversimplified the science considerably, but it managed to salvage two decades' worth of research, and to justify why physicians had bothered to measure total cholesterol in their patients.

Gary Taubes

#56. Katie: People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell. Why don't you talk to him?

Cecelia Ahern

#57. If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live.

Sherry Soule

#58. I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a
soul above buttons.

George Orwell

#59. I'm merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.

Richard Carlson

#60. Usually a quarrel between Cale and Sonya would amuse Sebastian, but today it barely registered. His constant attention was on Anya. She was laughing and enjoying herself with another male, and that bothered him more than it should.
~Sebastian from Demon Possession

Kiersten Fay

#61. Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

John Hawkes

#62. He had found that all snails have the capacity to do over one hundred miles per hour and find their way to a given location with pinpoint accuracy, but didn't because they were horribly lazy and couldn't be bothered.

Jasper Fforde

#63. A sign on the door proclaimed: The countess is NOT to be bothered except in the cases of death, disembowelment, the Apocalypse, or the arrival of her mother.

Courtney Milan

#64. I hope this letter reaches you (Osama) anyway. I hope it finds you before the Americans do otherwise I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered aren't I?

Chris Cleave

#65. Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

Michael Keaton

#66. We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

Peggy Haymes

#67. You chicks get hot and bothered about anything.

Melina Marchetta

#68. The therapist, he thought, and it bothered him a lot more than it should have. After all, he had nothing permanent with Sophie. He just needed to touch her on a semiregular basis or he couldn't finish his sentences.

Jennifer Crusie

#69. I didn't need protecting and men seemed to sense that. It bothered a lot of them.

Faith Hunter

#70. Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.

Kate Atkinson

#71. Simply having opposition brought latent feelings to the surface and polarized views he might otherwise hardly have bothered to formulate. It became
urgent for him to revile Richard Strauss, and he did it happily but a little hysterically, as if far
more than questions of taste were involved.

Alan Hollinghurst

#72. Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly.

Charles Dickens

#73. I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Robert Smith

#74. I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.

Rani Mukerji

#75. We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Anne Sullivan

#76. The UPA government is non-serious, it has taken the people for granted & it is not bothered about the youth. Their approach shows lack of faith in democracy. Our goal is to win the trust of the people & give dignity to them ...

Narendra Modi

#77. Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

Alan Sillitoe

#78. I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain ... I'm not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.

Kate Winslet

#79. I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

David Cronenberg

#80. As bothered as I am by having to defend my decision, I'm more incensed that people think they have the right to ask.

Danielle Henderson

#81. Oh, a Container Store," I gush upon seeing the organizational store.

"Does that get you all hot and bothered, Chloe? Did you want to stop?"

"Shut up," I say as we cross the street. "Maybe later.

Jana Aston

#82. I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.

Sarah Dessen

#83. Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

Zachery Ty Bryan

#84. They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

Toby Jones

#85. Science is defined in the dictionaries as the pursuit of the unknown; yet science today is coming more and more to insist that it not be bothered with this, and it has reached a point where anything that is not already known is frowned upon.

Ivan T. Sanderson

#86. I am a thousand scattered pieces that no one has bothered to put together.

Jennifer Coburn

#87. If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within 'why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.

Dada Bhagwan

#88. She cried for herself - the life she'd never bothered to live and had almost lost - and the realization that she still had an opportunity to change it all before it was too late.

Jana Deleon

#89. When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

Maeve Binchy

#90. I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.

Jack Nicklaus

#91. He avoided stepping on the plants - though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.

Brandon Sanderson

#92. It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already.
That's right
you heard me: dead again already.
I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?

Jim Butcher

#93. There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.

Jerry Springer

#94. Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god
who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see

Jodi Picoult

#95. Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.

Frank Buckles

#96. She never bothered to look down.

Sarah J. Maas

#97. The selfish part of me, however, couldn't fathom not falling asleep in his arms or being with him every day. I needed TJ, and the thought of being away from him bothered me more than I wanted to admit.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#98. Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible

Ann Brashares

#99. When I'm watching sports I can't be bothered.

Jeremy Hotz

#100. Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there's no criticism. That means you're too safe

Kanye West