Ruth Rendell Quotes

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

I feel that too much singing annoys people.

Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.

I actually find prank CDs pretty annoying.

Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me?

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

The man irritated her just like a rash.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

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

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

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.

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

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.