Top 100 Fuss Quotes
#1. I'm doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I'm concerned, I'll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I'll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I'm being selfish. It's perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of the fuss.
Jessie Burton
#2. My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.
Jacqueline Bisset
#3. I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
Wislawa Szymborska
#4. Now I'm a big fan [of X-files]. I had to see what all the fuss is about, and I love it.
Rhys Darby
#5. She decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She now knew why people made such a fuss about weddings. It was to keep the bride's mind occupied, lest she fall into strange mental chasms.
Julia Quinn
#6. Dirt is a thing people make too much fuss about.
George Orwell
#7. I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#8. I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.
Sharon Tate
#9. I don't think we can do it any other way," Nick said practically. "The circus is going to make a big fuss about it." It was all part of the hype of being circus stars, but
Danielle Steel
#10. It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.
Audrey Tautou
#11. The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."
Alan Watts
#12. Every one made such a fuss over things nowadays! They wanted injections before they had teeth pulled -they took drugs if they couldn't sleep-they wanted easy chairs and cushions and the girls allowed their figures to slop about anyhow and lay about half naked on the beaches in summer.
Agatha Christie
#13. I hurt just like them white women. Just 'cause I wasn't hooping and hollering before didn't mean I wasn't feeling pain. What'd they think? That just 'cause I knowed how to have a baby with no fuss that my behind wasn't pulling and aching like theirs?
Toni Morrison
#14. Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.
Nathan Filer
#15. He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn't. And there was never an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Terry Pratchett
#16. Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?
Julie Burchill
#17. If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.
Jim Shaw
#18. I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#19. My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.
Tom Ford
#20. In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
Caitlin Thomas
#21. True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
N. T. Wright
#22. I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
Samantha Bee
#23. They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything.
J.K. Rowling
#24. Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because it's of your place and means that you aren't forgotten; someone's noticed what you have been doing with your life.
Peter Carey
#25. When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.
Hayden Fry
#26. [The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.
Pamela Frankau
#27. I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#28. Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
Moliere
#29. Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.
Douglas Rushkoff
#30. Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
Emily Carr
#31. Looking back ... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
Zola Budd
#32. Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#33. This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February ...
John Prescott
#34. We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;
Robert Harris
#36. I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.
Lily Tomlin
#37. What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
D.H. Lawrence
#38. There ought to be a big fuss when people move up in the world.
Tove Jansson
#39. And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#40. I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.
Miles Franklin
#41. He willed his body to remain unaffected. Sabin would fuss if Strider sported a hard-on around his precious. And, of course, "fuss" meant Strider would find his intestines wrapped around his neck, breathing a thing of the past.
Gena Showalter
#42. I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.
Chuck Knox
#44. A Kitchen Prayer Thank God for dirty dishes, They have a tale to tell; While others may go hungry We're eating very well. With home, health, and happiness, I shouldn't want to fuss; By the stack of evidence, God's been very good to us! ~ Anonymous ~
Darlene Schacht
#45. Are we seriously reading a book together?" I asked in disbelief. "Yep. I need to see what all the fuss is about with these so-called book boyfriends you have. You never know, I might find myself a book girlfriend if I'm lucky." He winked and wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.
Rachel Brookes
#46. Down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss
infinity pleased our parents
one inch looks good to us
E. E. Cummings
#47. In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.
Khushwant Singh
#48. All the itch and clutter of the world, its bother and fuss, its nagging pettiness, can wear you down so easily. And this is why I like the beach ...
William Boyd
#49. Sure, ask a question, fire away, but remember, just because we answer doesn't mean we care. We all have our own problems, and mine are down in the cellar kicking up a fuss right now, must not have made the knots tight enough!!!
Neil Leckman
#50. Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.
Robertson Davies
#51. When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," we mean "Give me a surprise party. Do something lavish. Just don't tell everyone my age."
Joy Browne
#53. In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie
#54. People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#55. What an extraordinary fuss there has been,' said the Dame de Doubtance raspingly, 'about that irresponsible Irishwoman and her improper child.
Dorothy Dunnett
#56. I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.
Bob Marley
#57. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...
Ahad Ha'am
#58. While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more an effort to find a way to look good in their own individual, but natural way. I think it's a shame that it's become acceptable to wear jeans and a T-shirt to any place and function.
Thom Browne
#59. People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.
Frank Zappa
#60. The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Gloria Swanson
#61. Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die ... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history ... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third ...
Mao Zedong
#62. New Zealanders remain polite,hard-working, superficially cheerful, and unnervingly compliant and complaisant. And we remain dismissive of anyone who makes a fuss about anything
Gordon William McLauchlan
#63. I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
Franz Kafka
#64. I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can't shape the world into what they want it to be. It's easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.
Joshua Gaylord
#65. That wasn't sex talk, Lilli. I'm tellin' you I love you. Don't make a fuss. Just sayin' what I feel.
Susan Fanetti
#66. I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.
Brandi Carlile
#67. (Seth) "So," he said, looking me up and down, "you're what the fuss was all about. I can't say I'm impressed." He sneered at me. "Still riding bulls, cowboy?"
(Weber) "Nope." I smirked at him. "I only ride his cock now.
Mary Calmes
#68. I fell," he repeated for the hundredth time.
"But you didn't fall very far," Mary Sarojini now said.
"No, I didn't fall very far," he agreed.
"So what's all the fuss about?" the child inquired.
Aldous Huxley
#69. Only people who have something to hide make a fuss about privacy.
Lauren Oliver
#70. If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.
Bruce Lee
#71. Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
Anne Lamott
#72. A lot of people have the misconception that modeling is a glamourous job, and it can be. But ultimately if you don't like to stay quiet, and let people tell you what to do, and fuss on you ... it may not be the right fit. If you decide it's something you're really passionate about though, go for it!
Kelly Cutrone
#73. The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.
S.A. Tawks
#74. Back seat drivers don't know the feel of the wheel
but they sho' know how to make a fuss"
Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, "Let's Keep It Between Us," 1982
Bob Dylan
#75. My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it well.
Sarah Wylie
#76. Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
Christopher Morley
#77. Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
Bruce Lee
#78. Its selection and vetting process. The workers, for their part, can hope for a steady flow of jobs and prompt payment with minimal fuss. Handy's computer system also tries to schedule each worker's jobs in such a way as to minimise travel time.
Anonymous
#79. Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#80. You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.
Jules Furthman
#81. Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
Dale Carnegie
#82. Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.
Paulo Coelho
#83. To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults
Sunday Adelaja
#84. In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.
Julian Baggini
#85. Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns.
Rebecca Solnit
#87. Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!"
Snufkin: "Fuss and misery."
- from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip
Tove Jansson
#88. It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
Felicity Kendal
#89. Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?'
They surround me and make a big fuss
Ice Cube
#90. I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?
Sparky Anderson
#91. Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.
Max Frisch
#92. Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much
Galen Beckett
#93. It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it.
Kristine Grayson
#94. Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.
Julia McNair Wright
#95. People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
Jimmy Carter
#97. [Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.
Jim Fixx
#98. Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
Josh Billings
#99. Hell, why does one woman go crazy over a guy, and another wonders what all the fuss is about.
Jaimie Roberts
#100. I definitely live to eat. I love food in every way imaginable, and it does not have to be fancy. Whether we stay in or go out, I like a hardy meal. My grandmother taught me how to cook, and it was all about no fuss and lots of it.
Bill Rancic
