Bother Quotations

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.

I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

'Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.'

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!'

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

I probably make more money in a year on 'Newhart' than 70 percent of your working top-name stars. Some weeks I just have six lines, but it doesn't bother me.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

You can shave my head if you need to; it doesn't bother me.

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I didn't care if people had ketchup or if they were allergic to fish. It really didn't bother me either way. I didn't care. I was bad, but it was a good way to make money. And it's a fun job if you are working with fun people.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.

People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.

I'm a true believer that if someone bothers you, you care.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely feel like we don't have the time or energy to bother ourselves with the tribulations of nations near and far.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often.

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.

Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.

I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me.

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn't bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It's not serious.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

We've always been known as a football school, but that didn't really bother us. We just wanted to win and do this. We came together as a team and got it done.

We struggled in the wind, no question. I told the team that in the Mountain West Conference you have to be ready to play in all the elements: heat, cold, wind, dust, fog. But the offense really let the wind bother us today and we have to improve on that.

What this group has managed to do is not let anything get in the way of their goals in qualifying and winning games. We miss a player due to an injury or a suspension, they don't blink an eye, they just move forward. If they're in games where the officiating may be a little bit questionable, it doesn't bother them. They just keep their concentration and get after the task at hand.

When we attacked their pressure we were fine. But 75 percent of the game, we let their press bother us. When we played around with their press, we got into our scoring area with 10 or 12 seconds left (on the 30-second shot clock) and we had to rush a shot.

When we feed them, someone writes in a log what they eat so we'll know if they're not eating well and can tell our vet. People go into the shark tank once a week to clean it. They don't bother you. They pretty much go to the other side of the tank.

We're just not hitting on all cylinders yet. Does it bother me? Certainly. I'd like to rush for 200 yards every game.

We let them dictate the tempo and lost our focus. We lost our focus and let things bother us.

We let their height bother us in the first half. We played a zone to help us rebound, but it didn't work in the first half.

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

We were too hungry to bother to read.

Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.

And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode...

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

We did get back on our heels a little bit. That's the worst thing you can do against pressure. You have to continue to attack it. I think we really let it bother us. They blocked a couple shots, and we got hesitant.

The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out...