Sorry For Being A Nuisance Quotes

#1. Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

Yolanda Adams

#2. I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

Elia Kazan

#3. You cannot be fresh and feeling fine, wearing a washed vest under an unwashed shirt; or, an unwashed vest over a washed shirt. Both have to be clean, to provide a sense of tingling joy. So too outer and inner cleanliness is but the reflection of the inner achievement.

Sathya Sai Baba

#4. Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.

Criss Jami

#5. When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.

Doug Martsch

#6. When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Charles Olson

#7. Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.

Oscar Wilde

#8. I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place.

Peter Finch

#9. Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order.

Gunter Brus

#11. A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. There's a natural point in the development of any religion where the prophet becomes first a nuisance and then a positive liability. Just imagine Jesus walking into an evangelical church while the collection plate was being passed around

Adrian Barnes

#13. Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.

Richelle Mead

#14. 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 harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.

Vito Acconci

#15. The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

Lauren Willig

#16. One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

Freya Stark

#17. By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a 'child', of being wholly
subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good

John Holt

#18. If you were adventurous, scoop out the fragrant, heavenly, alarming flesh of the durian.

J.G. Farrell

#19. Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee

John Steinbeck

#20. When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

Laurie Simmons

#21. You give before you get.

Napoleon Hill

#22. As soap wastes away each time when used, so a prostitute wastes away each time she gives of herself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. Even if you're fat, one thing always fits: shoes.

Mimi Pond

#24. Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

George Alec Effinger

#25. Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between ease and rich unrest.

Vera Brittain

#26. I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

#27. Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Stedman Graham

#28. I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

Mark Haddon

#29. The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

Agatha Christie