Irritating Quotes - Page 7

• If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Classic, Accepted, Realising

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.515, Vintage

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• I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

  David Benioff

  Passion, Character, Men

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Worry, Caddies

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Ideas, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.274, Wildside Press LLC

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• Just because you're a solo artist playing guitar, that doesn't make it folk. People get a bit confused about these things. There's so many more aspects to my music than that. Earlier on in my career, people tried to push me in that direction. They kind of wanted me to be a folky princess, which was just never gonna happen. I don't understand quite why it is, but it is very irritating that it's still happening.

  Marika Hackman

  Confused, Princess, Artist

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• Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Salad

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• I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

  Aphex Twin

  Lying, Kids, Should Have

  "Tank boy". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.

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• I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Eye, Cutting, Skins

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• Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Book, Library, Want

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• I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

  Charlotte Church

  My Boyfriend, Singing, Doe

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• Never whine about the French. It's considered a sign of weakness to even acknowledge their existence. Remember: The poor devils haven't won anything since they rebuffed the Kaiser at Marne. Irritating the world into submission is their only hope. Ignore them when you can, agree with them when you can't - but never, ever make eye contact. Particularly after dark.

  Randy Wayne

  Eye, Dark, Devil

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• What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, What If, Factions

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, Writing, Jumping

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around." "Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?" Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around.

  Mira Grant

  Eyebrows, Ideas, Giving

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• Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.

  Peter Sagal

  Funny, Cutting, Science

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• I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mother, Father, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.32, Routledge

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• This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

  Felix Dennis

  Safety, Nannies, Modern

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• You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

  Daniel Handler

  Sweet, Thinking, Doors

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• When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Sexy, Believe, Simple

  "Q&A: Jennifer Aniston and Her Makeup Artist Talk Beauty". Interview with Tina Turnbow, www.thecut.com. July 1, 2013.

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• Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Ignorance, Politics

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• It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.

  Cleveland Amory

  Reading, Men, One Day

  Cleveland Amory (1991). “The cat and the curmudgeon”

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• Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.

  Ann Coulter

  Impact, Debate, Enjoy

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.81, Crown Forum

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.

  Norman Macbeth

  Cat, Long, Black

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• I'm not meant to run around trees. I can't throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea. The film has to be a little twisted and quirky.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Running, Sweet, Air

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