I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
Aaron Swartz
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
Andy Grove
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza
I would be excited if we could reimagine workplaces that start from a premise that women are going to be a central part: Women are going to bear children, people are going to raise those children, and it's not going to be a nuisance - it's actually going to be understood as part of the deal.
Cecile Richards
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Charles Olson
Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
Christoph Waltz
So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, intruding on their space when you ask them questions; maybe they don't want to deal with you at the time. And now, it's, 'Hey, welcome, where's Craig?' Whereas, now, it's kind of different.
Craig Sager
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
Daniel H. Hill
Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
David D. Burns
Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
David Low
Normally, it takes me about three years to write one of the big books. It is usually four years between releases because of the huge amount of travel and PR and just nuisance going on around them. I have a lot of pressure from publishers and agents.
Diana Gabaldon
If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.
Dilip Kumar
It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.
Dmitri Alperovitch
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
Frank Carson
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
Henry Villard
I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.
Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.
The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it.
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.
Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
Property is a nuisance.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves.
Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against my skin, and I don't know why some 100% cotton t-shirts itch and others don't; it has something to do with the weave.
Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.