Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
Alvin Lee

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.
Peter Brimelow

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?
Frances Farmer

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Rutherford B. Hayes

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.
Timothy West

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
Greta Garbo

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.
Jeri Ryan

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
Ann Oakley

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
Burton Cummings

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
Richard Harris

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.
Maurice Gibb

To change, to convert? Why bother?
Lionel Blue

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.
Jay Kay

Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.
Merv Griffin

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
Richard Stallman