Top 100 Never Bothered Quotes
#1. My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Nancy Mitford
#2. The digital clock that sat on the empty bookcase blinked insistently in the dim room. It was an hour and thirty-five minutes off, but Archie had never bothered to reset it, he just did the maths to calculate the time.
Chelsea Cain
#3. People never bothered to pay attention to those who served them. Waiters and drivers were the most invisible people in the world.
Ayelet Waldman
#4. Once ... but then I realized I was right the first time, so I never bothered to change my mind again.
G.A. Aiken
#5. I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.
Bill Nighy
#6. I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
George Soros
#7. He had never bothered to count time before, but he started to now, and it began with counting each breath she took.
Thea Harrison
#8. Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.
Michael J. Fox
#9. Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
River Phoenix
#11. I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
Mose Allison
#13. I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
Mickey Mantle
#14. You know that if I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
#15. You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
Chevy Chase
#16. In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.
Joan Didion
#17. Playing music in front of thousands of people never bothered me. It was only when I started putting on magic shows in front of a much smaller audience that I would begin sweating bullets, so I'm much more focused now.
David Lovering
#18. Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
Mel Brooks
#19. Then there was Mani, the Mighty Good-For-Nothing. He towered above all the other boys of the class. He seldom brought any books to the class, and never bothered about homework. He came to the class, monopolized the last bench, ans slept bravely. No teacher ever tried to prod him.
R.K. Narayan
#20. In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society
Tunku Abdul Rahman
#21. Eh, "Haters," never bothered me. Nothing on twitter is serious. I only dislike when folks attack each other.
Patrick Stump
#22. It was like Rhys had ordered the whole thing from Castles R Us, and then never bothered to swing by the local Bed, Battlements, and Beyond for the accessories he'd need to make it believable.
Seanan McGuire
#23. I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.
Kurt Cobain
#24. I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.
Angus Young
#25. It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.
Kevin Costner
#27. The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
Rosa Bonheur
#29. Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
Magic Johnson
#30. Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one left who could speak her tribe's language, but the anthropologists didn't realize it and never bothered to learn it from her. When the old woman died, the language died with her.
Jerzy Kosinski
#31. If there could be anything worse than having a parent die, it would be having a parent who never bothered to meet you.
Jeanne Birdsall
#32. It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.
Kobe Bryant
#33. Darren, Prince Darren, the sometimes-bane-of-my-existence, had put faith in a future that even I had never bothered to foresee.
Rachel E. Carter
#34. Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named Reston that never bothered anyone.
Kate Noble
#35. And as horrible as that felt in this moment, it was almost a relief. Because he didn't need to worry about loss if he never bothered to love anyone.
Tere Michaels
#36. I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
Andre Previn
#37. He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.
Michael Finkel
#39. Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.
Frank Buckles
#40. 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
#41. Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.
Boy George
#42. That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The
details didn't matter.
Meg Rosoff
#43. 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
#44. I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise.
Gunter Grass
#45. 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
#46. Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.
George Carlin
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I fancy that the Irish language must have 57 different words for 'rain', in the same way that Inuit has for 'snow'. If, in reality, this is not the case, then I'm really glad I've never bothered to learn Irish'.
Stephen Price
#50. My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over me with painful sharpness and deep grief. Now that I had company.
Linda Olsson
#51. We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
Charles Bukowski
#52. You wouldn't have had to call a penalty on me, I would've called I on myself'.
9. "I'm the sole judge of my standards".
10. "I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.
Ben Hogan
#53. History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#54. Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.
Nicholas Sparks
#55. I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
Ben Hogan
#56. I remember the day I saw my hair was thinning. I don't remember caring much. I don't care. It's just hair. It never bothered me much. I was pretty young, too. And it happened and is happening very slowly. I have a feeling dead people get really mad when we complain about losing hair.
Louis C.K.
#57. That's the way things were; people liked Lily, and while they were busy liking her, Violet got things done.
It never bothered Violet. She liked having things to do, and if her sister hadn't been there, they wouldn't have liked Violet any better. They'd only have ignored her more.
Courtney Milan
#58. Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
Thomas A. Edison
#59. The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
Mose Allison
#60. I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
Joseph Barbera
#61. I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.
Gillian Wearing
#62. Cinderella and the prince
lived, they say, happily ever after,
like two dolls in a museum case
never bothered by diapers or dust,
never arguing over the timing of an egg,
never telling the same story twice ...
Anne Sexton
#63. Winning the Ballon d'Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.
Paul Scholes
#64. The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like - no thanks.
Osamu Dazai
#65. He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
#66. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
Queen Latifah
#67. I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
Tina Turner
#68. Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.
Cher
#69. But maybe she'd always been this fucking adorable and I'd just been the jackass who never bothered to notice.
Sarah Darlington
#70. But you know," he continued, "in all the regrets I have, the one thing that never bothered me were the decisions I made with my heart. The rational ones, the ones I made while I was scared or desperate, those hammer at me constantly." - Nero
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.
Julia Sawalha
#72. I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.
Harrison Ford
#73. I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very hard on a programme and you can't be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch it, but I have to turn away when I'm on screen. It's quite unpleasant seeing myself up there.
Sarah Beeny
#74. Many people on the street recognize me and are so positive ... I am extremely passionate about helping others get healthy and I never feel bothered when fans stop and want to talk..
Kim Lyons
#75. The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant
#76. I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
Veronica Roth
#77. But as often is the case with short people - he never grew past five foot three - once he made up his mind about something, no matter how trivial it might be, he never backed down. And he was bothered by illogical rules and by teachers who couldn't meet his exacting
Haruki Murakami
#78. I'm not bothered about clothes. Never have been.
Marie Helvin
#79. As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.
Eve Myles
#80. I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.
Carol Vorderman
#81. I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven't done anything. I never really bothered much and I don't care.
Benedetta Tagliabue
#82. I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.
Ewan McGregor
#83. I'd never been fond of gratuitous cursing. I figured it was lazy, a communication habit of people who couldn't be bothered finding the correct word.
Susan Lyons
#84. You never said anything. You didn't tell him when things bothered you. That doesn't make it right, but you can't not say anything and expect him to magically know what he needs to work on. It doesn't work like that.
Meg Harding
#85. When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.
Hilary Mantel
#86. I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me.
Shannon L. Alder
#87. I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.
Timothy F. Cahill
#88. When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
Nick Tosches
#89. The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
Francesca Annis
#90. We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they always presented us with eggs, which I thought was very generous of them, considering the heat. I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered.
Victoria Twead
#91. I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.
Albert Finney
#92. 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
#93. Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.
Dale Carnegie
#94. He had always been alone, I thought, gazing at a world in which he had never found a place and that was now almost perfectly indifferent to him; he was incapable even of disturbing it, of making a sound it could be bothered to hear.
Garth Greenwell
#95. But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.
Ray Bradbury
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.
Marion Motley
#99. Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.
Tahereh Mafi
#100. I think I was punishing Dante. He had given me a piece of himself that he had never given to another human being. And I hadn't even bothered to look at it. Why was I doing that?
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