Top 100 It Bothers Me Quotes
#2. I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.
Nelson DeMille
#3. It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?
Donald Sterling
#4. It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
Richard Morris
#5. My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do.
Temple Grandin
#6. The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading ... just stop.
Michael Wilbon
#7. But that means the pups are starving to death, too. Not just the big rats," said Gregor. "Doesn't that bother you?" "Of course it bothers me!" Mareth shook his head and sighed. "It is so hard for you to know what it is like for us here, Gregor.
Suzanne Collins
#8. her. It's impossible not to. It bothers me to
Nora Roberts
#9. It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
Harold Brodkey
#10. It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.
Charles Barkley
#11. You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.
Rufus Reid
#12. It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?
James Vincent McMorrow
#13. Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.
Mario Monicelli
#14. There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone.
Kristen Stewart
#15. Try not to scream when I break your bones. It bothers me. You can cry if you want; that's fine."
He burst out laughing. I didn't realize that was a funny statement.
"Got it," he said, trying unsuccessful to cover his grin. "Screaming, no. Crying, yes
Amy Tintera
#16. Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.
Derek Jeter
#17. It bothers me when people have no problem paying for all they can eat but have problems investing in all they can be.
Saji Ijiyemi
#18. I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.
Richard P. Feynman
#19. Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you're trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.
Jennifer Silverwood
#20. I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.
Marc Maron
#21. Sometimes it bothers me that people now only recognize me because of tragedy. But I've come to understand that people really care and worry for me. I feel I should say to every person I meet, 'I'm fine. Daria's fine. Life goes on.'
Ekaterina Gordeeva
#22. It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.
Lee Greenwood
#23. I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
Calvin Klein
#24. People are what bother me most in life. It bothers me that so many lack common sense,
Cecelia Ahern
#25. I wonder if the boy is a witness, perp, or victim. It bothers me that I can't tell, that a predator can look no different from its prey.
Hester Young
#26. It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.
Carmelo Anthony
#27. If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
Iris Dement
#28. I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
Vikram Seth
#29. It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.
Don Nickles
#30. It bothers me. I've turned into the monster we fought against in the beginning." He
Holly S. Roberts
#31. I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
Astro Teller
#32. I shall freckle."
"That doesn't bother me," he said with a shrug.
"It bothers me!"
"Don't worry. They'll be on your own face, so you won't have to see them."
Ellie gaped at him, astounded by his illogic.
Julia Quinn
#33. I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Richard Powers
#34. It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.
Emily Haines
#35. I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried, but I just can't seem to find a melody.
Brian Wilson
#36. I don't do hugging. I don't like people touching me ever when there's no treat involved. It's too intimate and it bothers me.
Katja Millay
#37. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often.
Kristen Stewart
#38. It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
Christoph Waltz
#39. It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.
Alana Stewart
#40. I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don't think that that should be perpetuated. I'm sorry I'm sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.
Tim Gunn
#41. It bothers me that so many lack common sense, that their opinions can be so biased and backward, so utterly frustrating,misguided,misinformed and dangerous that I can't stand to listen to them.
Cecelia Ahern
#42. It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?
Jake Gyllenhaal
#44. The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
Louise Bourgeois
#45. I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
Curt Schilling
#46. I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#47. I'm not even that upset about the rejection any more. What bothers me most is that I haven't got to the end of my story, and I can't start over with someone else, it's too hard.
Paula Hawkins
#48. The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
Emma Thompson
#49. It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.
Walt Alston
#50. It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.
Reese Witherspoon
#51. I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just bothers me. And, when one band or artist gives it away, it devalues the rest of the product from those who would like to make some money or a living from it.
Steve Mahoney
#52. I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
Eugenie Scott
#53. I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.
Anton Yelchin
#54. What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
Robert Orben
#55. One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.
Carl Sagan
#56. People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
Jerry Lewis
#57. Here's what bothers me about adults. They say we're supposed to be the bigger person and lie there like road kill while the bullies repeatedly run us over. That we're saying more by taking the abuse and staying silent, than sticking up for ourselves. I don't see it that way.
Lauren Hammond
#58. What is it about death that bothers me? Probably the hours.
Woody Allen
#59. Still bothers me that there's nothing on the news about it," Hilda
Robert Boren
#60. People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
Paula Cole
#61. But it's not so bad, I can think of worse traits in a flatmate. No, it's not Cathy, it's not even Ashbury that bothers me most about my new situation (I still think of it as new, although it's been two years). It's the loss of control.
Paula Hawkins
#62. I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.
Mike Myers
#63. [T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.
Richard Brown
#64. JUSTICE: Nothing bothers me. I'm unflappable. It's why I'm a good manager.
Bijou Hunter
#65. Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.
Penelope Cruz
#66. Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count - it's a fun body count.
Bonnie Bedelia
#67. It's not the sound itself that bothers me; it's just the fact that it's loud. The loud sounds make it impossible to hear the soft sounds and the soft sounds are the ones you have to be afraid of.
Katja Millay
#68. When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.
Holly Holm
#69. What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school? I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.
Holly Black
#70. I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's what I do before a celebration. And nobody bothers me when I'm ironing.
Alexandra Stoddard
#71. Halt sighed in exasperation. "What is it with you Araluens? Are you all afraid of a little fall?" He began hauling the rope up, coiling it over his shoulder as it came. "It's not the fall that bothers me," said Duncan. "It's the sudden stop at the end.
John Flanagan
#72. A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Jesse Livermore
#73. It really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred.
E. Lockhart
#74. People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Octavia E. Butler
#75. What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.
Billy Corgan
#76. I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.
Simon Cowell
#77. I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.
Bill Buckner
#78. I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.
Paul Walker
#79. I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
Kurt Cobain
#80. What bothers me is that health professionals give fancy names to conditions or learning difficulties that will irritate the patients; like OCD not being in alphabetical order, putting an 'S' in 'lisp,' and making dyslexia a word that no one can spell. It's just mean.
Suzanne Wright
#81. I never read my reviews ... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
Pat Conroy
#82. What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does.
Gary Kurz
#83. It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.
Catherine Deneuve
#84. It's not convenience that bothers me, it's people's obsession with saving time. Everything's a race. I just don't get who or what we're constantly racing against.
Katie Kacvinsky
#85. It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!
Martin Luther
#86. I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes ... it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal
or completely shattered.
E. Lockhart
#87. One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
Lyn Nofziger
#88. To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me.
Steve Buscemi
#89. It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
Keri Hulme
#90. Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?
Samuel Beckett
#91. This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.
Holly Johnson
#92. It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Don't just say 'I'm picking the place' - ask me where I want to go!
Cassie Scerbo
#93. It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.
Lou Reed
#94. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
Rooney Mara
#95. When I'm unhappy with something, people know, because I don't want to hold on to it. I'd rather deal immediately with the stuff that bothers me, so using my network - my girlfriends, my husband, my mom - I talk a lot, I vent.
Michelle Obama
#96. Then I read that Jesus was a friend of sinners. This still bothers me. Not because Jesus was a friend of sinners (because that came in really handy in my case). It bothered me because if I'm trying to live like Jesus, that means I'm supposed to be a friend of sinners too.
Dillon Burroughs
#97. Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.
Tom Scholz
#98. I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.
Diana Gabaldon
#99. It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.
Chaz Bono
#100. Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.
John Tavener
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