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But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.' -- Ayelet Waldman
Fuss is the froth of business. -- Thomas Hood
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. -- Josh Billings
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. -- Mason Cooley
I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. -- Sharon Tate
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. -- Evelyn Waugh
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. -- Aleister Crowley
It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss. -- Audrey Tautou
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. -- Salman Rushdie
Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter. -- Anne Lamott
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss. -- Wilbur Smith
I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss. -- Rutger Hauer
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head. -- Jimmy Carter
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long. -- Salman Rushdie
In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year. -- Julian Baggini
I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.' -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster? -- Julie Burchill
I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me. -- Lily Tomlin
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it. -- Edmund Hillary
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.' -- Audrey Hepburn
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. -- Barbara Cartland
My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products. -- Tom Ford
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. -- Rachel Blanchard
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about. -- Maureen Dowd
I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper. -- Samantha Bee
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' -- Noam Chomsky
Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it. -- Mikko Hypponen
I must forgive without noise or fuss. -- Albert Schweitzer
There's simply too much fuss about myself, -- Wislawa Szymborska
I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail. -- Alton Brown
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. -- Arthur C. Clarke
oh... so this is what all the fuss is about. -- Tammara Webber
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection. -- Moliere
Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe. -- Paulo Coelho
The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss." -- Alan Watts
There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes. -- John Wyndham
If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever. -- Jim Shaw
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. -- Junko Tabei
And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss. -- Ken Bruen
people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one -- Alice Munro
When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss. -- Banksy
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness. -- Dale Carnegie
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little. -- Caitlin Thomas
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. -- Charles Dickens
Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction; marks of maturity. -- Alex Morritt
What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous? -- Johnny Carson
Why this fuss about understanding women?! It's so simple. All we want is everything, no compromises. -- Shweta Bhatnagar
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love. -- Gustave Flaubert
All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that. -- Fanny Blankers-Koen
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. -- Gloria Swanson
I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss. -- Sara Ramirez
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. -- Douglas Adams
After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race. -- Lester Piggott
Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God. -- Emily Carr
First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too. -- PJ Harvey
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. -- John Muir
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. -- Christopher Morley
Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over. -- Terri Farley
Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss -- Ice Cube
The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss. -- Stefanie Powers
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world. -- Elizabeth Janeway
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. -- Pamela Frankau
I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick) -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much -- Galen Beckett
Now I'm a big fan [of X-files]. I had to see what all the fuss is about, and I love it. -- Rhys Darby
[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss. -- Jim Fixx
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss! -- Wyndham Lewis
Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us. -- James Brown
I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary -- Hugh Lofting
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. -- Wilfrid Sheed
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss. -- Richard Flanagan
The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about. -- S.A. Tawks
Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat. -- Bruce Lee
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another. -- E. M. Forster
My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it well. -- Sarah Wylie
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place. -- Amor Towles
We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us! -- Leo Robin
The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss. -- Ringo Starr
Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it. -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. -- Arthur C. Clarke
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. -- Ronald Blythe
I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair. -- Jonah Goldberg
I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster? -- Sparky Anderson
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. -- Wislawa Szymborska
We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home. -- Chuck Knox
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. -- D. H. Lawrence
Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules! -- Jim Carrey
I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice. -- Bob Marley
The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on. -- Kumi Naidoo
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. -- John Osborne
This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February ... -- John Prescott
The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them. -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare -- Lane Olinghouse
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are. -- Joan Robinson
Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about! -- Martha Quinn
Back seat drivers donâ??t know the feel of the wheel but they shoâ?? know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, â??Letâ??s Keep It Between Us,â? 1982 -- Bob Dylan
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide. -- Anatoly Karpov
People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7! -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good. -- Sean Lennon
My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all. -- Jacqueline Bisset
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about -- Ingmar Bergman

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