Harry Norman Turtledove Quotes

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.

You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.

I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.

how can a little thing be so annoying?

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?

A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)

Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.

Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.