Nuisance Quotations

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.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

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.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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.

When we have the Duval County Fair, they bring a lot of livestock into the city. That falls into a nuisance because it is affecting the public health, because the smell is so bad.

We know we're getting nuisance bears in the check stations.

Practically everybody knows what its 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.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

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

What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Online threats to consumers have expanded from widespread nuisance viruses to targeted attacks designed to steal personal, confidential information.

People who buy medicines marketed via spam messages are not only encouraging the spammers to send more of their nuisance emails, but are also potentially putting their lives at risk. Daniel Lin is unlikely to be sending any more spam, but there are plenty of other spammers out there prepared to make a quick buck with their unwanted marketing messages. All computer users should defend their email addresses with up-to-date anti-spam software, and remember to never buy goods marketed via spam.

I don't know what constitutes a nuisance bar, but I'd think this would. We're fed up.

I believe we'll now see a reduction in nuisance complaints, a reduction in serious complaints and that we'll get more information about these bears because of this.

He won't know who I am or anything like that. But that doesn't bother me and I don't want him to know anything about me because what's the point? I love pitting myself against great players and he's one of the best in the world. I like to try to make a nuisance of myself when I play. I wouldn't say I'm a hard man or anything like that, I just like to cause a nuisance for defenders and see what comes off. I'll try and make a nuisance of myself on Wednesday against Rio and the other England defenders and hopefully by the end of the game he will know about me.

He is better than just making a nuisance of himself. That's unfair, because he is a genuinely good footballer

I think the greatest weakness for the lawsuit is its novelty. This is a use of nuisance laws and consumer protection laws that has no precedent. And whenever it's a new theory, the outcome is difficult to guess or predict.

It happens almost every day but is a nuisance that we residents can obviously do without because it is hampering our normal schedules.

It is a very slow and laborious process. It's not a practical way to deal with nuisance animals, especially on a large scale.

Last week Keith complained of soreness is his knee. He had an MRI on Monday, which revealed some very slight cartilage damage. Keith, his mother and the medical staff then got together and decided to repair it now instead of having it be a nuisance throughout the season.

I was trying to check my e-mail Monday afternoon and I couldn't get into my computer, ... The computer would shut down, turn on, shut down and turn on. It didn't do any damage, but it was a terrible nuisance and I was frustrated.

We've marked over 200, and five became nuisance animals.

We are just going to get together and come up with a plan in case we get any evidence of bird flu. We have already passed an ordinance that states if the city manager declares the chickens a health nuisance you can kill all of them.

Wednesday night we have a chance of snow or rain and temperatures will be in the low 30s. That will continue into Thursday, but it's not going to be a big storm. It's going to be more of a nuisance - there shouldn't be any accumulation that effects anything in a negative way.

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination.

We wouldn't mind giving it back to them because it's really too small to be a public ramp. It causes a nuisance in the neighborhood with people parking boats and trailers in front of houses.

We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.

What's in it for them ? who knows? Maybe they just feel it's a chance to weaken the ACT Party and Rodney who would be a nuisance, he's a formidable person... frankly from the point of view of self interest it's almost like nuisance litigation.

We all tend to collect these things because it's a little bit of a nuisance to dispose of them.

We're disappointed that he took away punitive damages but we're not surprised. This case has always been about abating the problem, to rid the state of this nuisance once and for all, and that's what the jury awarded." ()

Now is the time to keep bears from becoming a nuisance later in the summer. Bears that wander near residential areas in search of food are less likely to stay or return if they do not find anything rewarding. Conversely, if bears find food in your backyard they quickly learn to associate residential areas with food and begin to spend more time in those areas. Encounters between humans and bears increase, as does property damage, the risk of human injury and vehicle accidents involving bears.

That's kind of a nuisance at times. But we take the good with the bad.

This is not a nuisance control program. It's targeting potential species that can carry West Nile virus.

The whole game was frustrating for me, ... It was an ugly game, but it was a 'W.' Guys stepped up and hit big shots. ... I tried to be a nuisance on defense. I felt like it was an opportunity to go after it (against Crawford), especially down the stretch. I knew he wasn't passing, so I took a gamble.

They're up to political mischief and making a nuisance of themselves." ()

This judgment against a spammer is undoubtedly the biggest we have ever heard of. Spam is not just a nuisance for individual computer users who find their inboxes clogged up with unwanted mail, but for ISPs who are hit in the pocket by having to pay for the bandwidth to deliver and store hundreds of millions of messages.

Accessibility has been an afterthought and nuisance to the county.

It was becoming a distraction. We were aware of it, but it was still just a nuisance with all the buzz around here.

It was becoming a distraction. We were aware of it, but all the nuisance of the buzz. ... Now it's out there and we can go out and play these last five games.

It's more of a nuisance at a time when we're trying to wend our way through 20,000-plus applications.

Eventually, you get to the point that the paradigm involved in this won't work. You've got to do something different. The addition of leap seconds is going to be an increasing nuisance for people who are counting on a time scale where a minute actually contains 60 seconds.

It's sort of a pilot project that we're doing. We had used oil and chip applications back in the 1980s and sort of got away from it because it can be a nuisance to the residents. It's a little messy. But the price between that and typical paving is significantly cheaper.

Everybody's afraid that the guy next door is going to sell his house to put up a CVS, but the fact is that almost never happens and there are zoning and nuisance laws already in place to prevent it.

It's considered a nuisance crime. But it's not just a nuisance to us.

Not anybody can do the job. If his mother was violating the nuisance ordinances, he'd cite her.

It's related in that it's school holidays and kids are not in school. Be it high school or college or middle school. Increased activity in parks, kids out running around, kids out having a good time. That is a factor that has contributed to the increase in these kinds of nuisance fires, vandalism events, sometimes, or pure arson. You always see an increase in activity this time of year.

That sends a powerful message to society that we're a nuisance and disposable and you can do what you want with us.

increased crime and disorder, public nuisance and decreased public safety at a place which is dear to people from various Christian traditions.

I have no explanation for that. The senator intended the TTP permit as a means for subdivisions and cities to control nuisance deer. I have not looked at the rules promulgated by Texas Parks and Wildlife after the legislation was passed. It wouldn't be the first time the intent of a bill got changed.

If you become a nuisance ... they're not going to like you.

Being a greater nuisance on defense doesn't always mean stealing the ball. At times he got anxious and wanted to steal the ball when he was already in the player's head. He can win a lot of psychological battles without stealing the ball.

It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance.

Property is a nuisance.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

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.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

The first would be odor reduction. Odor is a comfort issue. We describe this as a nuisance odor. People react to odors differently. ... It doesn't necessarily mean there's a health effect but it does affect comfort within the building.

The McNeilus building was built over a tile line and it's more of a nuisance than anything really.

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg.268]

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

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.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Keeping an army in America has been nothing but a public nuisance

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

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.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.