Jeffrey Archer Quotes

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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

Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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

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.'

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

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.

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane

I've never been called a man of few words.

The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.