{"quotes":[{"text":"I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs.","author":"Pansy Schneider-Horst","tags":["annoying","divorce","friends","husband","marriage"],"id":44891,"author_id":"Pansy+Schneider-Horst"},{"text":"Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["annoying","social","socially-inept"],"id":54389,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"},{"text":"People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. Usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. Choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["annoying","apple","apples","bobbing","choices","energetic","energy","hope","optimism","optimist","optimistic","pessimism","pessimist","realism","realist"],"id":72111,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["annoying","boy","boys","cardew","confidence","confident","dragon","dragons","female","females","freya","gentleman","girl","girls","help","helpful","intrusive","knight","knightly","love","loved","loving","male","males","man","men","play","playful","relationship","relationships","save","save-me","show-off","woman","women"],"id":89499,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"Why are we sneaking out in the night?” Jack repeated.“I already explained,” Sam snapped. “If you don’t listen—”Taylor jumped in to say, “Because otherwise Astrid would find some way to stop him.” She mimicked Astrid’s voice, injecting it with steel and a tense, condescending tone. “Sam. I am the smartest, hottest girl in the world. So do what I tell you. Good boy. Down, boy. Down!”Sam remained silent, walking steadily just a few feet ahead.Taylor continued, “Oh, Sam, if only you could be as smart plus as totally goody-goody as I am. If only you could realize that you will never be good enough to have me, me, wonderful me, Astrid the Blond Genius.”“Sam, can I shoot her now?” Dekka asked. “Or is it too soon?”“Wait until we’re over the ridge,” Sam said. “It’ll muffle the sound.”“Sorry, Dekka,” Taylor said. “I know you don’t like talking about boy-girl things.”“Taylor,” Sam warned.“Yes, Sam?”“You might want to think about how hard it would be to walk if someone were to turn off gravity under your feet every now and then.”“I wonder who would do that?” Dekka said.Suddenly Taylor fell flat on her face.“You tripped me!” Taylor said, more shocked than angry.“Me?” Dekka spread her hands in a completely unconvincing gesture of innocence. “Hey, I’m all the way over here.”“I’m just saying: you can see where that could make a long walk just a lot longer,” Sam said.“You guys are so not fun,” Taylor grumped. She bounced instantaneously to just behind Sam. She grabbed his butt, he yelled, “Hey!” and she bounced away innocently.“To answer your question, Jack,” Sam said, “we are sneaking out at night so that everyone doesn’t know we’re gone and why. They’ll figure it out soon enough, but Edilio will have to have more of his guys on the streets if I’m not there playing the big, bad wolf. More stress for everyone.”“Oh,” Jack said.“The big, bad wolf,” Taylor said. She laughed. “So, when you play that fantasy in your head is Astrid Little Red Riding Hood or one of the Three Little Pigs?”“Dekka,” Sam said.“Hah! Too slow!","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["annoyed","annoying","astrid","astrid-the-genius","dekka","jack","mocking","night","sam-temple","shoot","talking","taylor","trip"],"id":103595,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.","author":"Tyler","tags":["dreamers","kids","annoying "],"id":147702,"author_id":"Tyler"},{"text":"Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.","author":"Maija Haavisto","tags":["annoying","death","misanthropy","nuisance","people","suicide"],"id":157466,"author_id":"Maija+Haavisto"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.","author":"Elsa Schiaparelli","tags":["world","dress","annoying "],"id":187635,"author_id":"Elsa+Schiaparelli"},{"text":"I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... Mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["aggravating","annoyance","annoying","bite","bloodsucker","bloodsuckers","bug","bugs","insect","insects","mosquito","mosquitoes","night","night-creature","sting","vampire","vampires"],"id":194891,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}