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Tag Name "Nuisance" (85)

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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.
Amory Lovins
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
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Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.
Terry Pratchett
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One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
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Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.
Will Rogers
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Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
Christoph Waltz
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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.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
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Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.
Marjorie Hillis
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I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
Hortense Calisher
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There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
Bertrand Russell
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
Freya Stark
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So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.
Carl Jung
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