#nuisance

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

#almost #been #biggest #considers #games

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fools #nuisance #death

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

#acted #career #danger #field #general

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#flashing #flashing lights #lights #nuisance #ten

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#another #call #exchange #nuisance #progress

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. ↗

— Plautus

#become #days #friend #guest #house

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

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#being #human #human being #must #nuisance

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. ↗

— Emile Zola

#having #i #myself #nuisance #often

Property is a nuisance. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#property

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

#admit #amidst #away #cannot #censorship