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Fuss Quotes

These fuss quotes look back at moments of commotion that faded quickly, favoring perspective and calm over dwelling on drama.

These fuss quotes take a step back from drama, favoring hindsight and calm over dwelling on what once seemed like a big deal. For more reflective, big-picture thinking, our About quotes touch on a related idea.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

Quotes by Zola Budd

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

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.

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

Quotes by Victoria de los Angeles

About Quotes

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.

Quotes by Upamanyu Chatterjee

Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.

Quotes by Simon Rattle

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

Quotes by Sharon Tate

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.

Quotes by Russell Tovey

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.

Quotes by Ronald Blythe

Always Quotes

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...

Quotes by Mikko Hypponen

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....

Quotes by Maureen Dowd

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!

Quotes by Martha Quinn

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.

Quotes by Lily Tomlin

I prefer eight hours of sound sleep at night. But on days when I can't, I try not to fuss about it and keep taking power naps through the day.

Quotes by Kirti Kulhari

Day Quotes

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.

Quotes by Julian Baggini

I won't kick up a fuss and I will always be a team man, but ultimately I want to play.

Quotes by Jack Butland

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.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

Quotes by Gloria Swanson

It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.

Quotes by Felicity Kendal

Death Quotes

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the main perspective shared across fuss quotes?
Most take a calm, retrospective view, noting that what felt like a big deal at the time often looks minor once enough years have passed.
Is there a quote about self-knowledge and fuss?
Yes, one jokes that reaching a certain age of self-awareness means realizing most commotion out there comes from people who claim to know things.
Do any fuss quotes reject excess attention?
One states simply that there's far too much fuss made over themselves, preferring less attention rather than more.
Is there a quote about career versus performance?
Yes, one separates the joy of making music from the surrounding fuss of a public career, saying only the latter never truly interested them.
What topic pairs with fuss quotes?
Our About quotes share a similar reflective, looking-back quality found throughout this collection.

One speaker dismisses excess attention paid to themselves, while another finds the public side of a career, not the music itself, the real source of unwanted Day-to-day fuss.