Irritating Quotes - Page 8

• ‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

  David Benioff

  Greatness, Two, World

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.78, Penguin

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• Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

  Nora Roberts

  Benches, Want, Parks

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Last Boyfriend”, p.40, Penguin

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• Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

  Jonathan Franzen

  "Jonathan Franzen: 'Twitter is the ultimate irresponsible medium'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2012.

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• It is really irritating to work with irritating people

  Joshua Ferris

  People, Irritating People

  Joshua Ferris (2008). “Then We Came to the End”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.

  James Patterson

  Want, Information, Silent

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• There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.

  A. S. Byatt

  School, Writing, Artist

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• Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

  Kinky Friedman

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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• This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

  Edward Gorey

  Art, Boring, Theory

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• What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Best Love, Love Is, Crime

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• It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Eye, Reality

  "The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2006.

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• I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?

  Lizzy Caplan

  Thinking, People, Rude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

  Jim Parsons

  Sexy, Thinking, Irritation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Finished

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• There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Government, Eyebrows, People

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• If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way in which thoughts are expressed and ideas, conveyed, the sometimes dogmatic application of what are, at best, useful maxims such as, 'less is more', the narrative techniques utilised, even the same, irritating, stylistic devices scattered like pepper all over the pages.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Ideas, Technique, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

  Steven Knight

  Oysters, Class, Revolution

  Source: deadline.com

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• Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Crow, Figures, Walks

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

  Amanda Palmer

  Sound, Looks, Fats

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• David's [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort of undermined what he'd done. Other people who kind of took life more cheaply, would have really gone for it. David almost did everything he could to scupper the whole thing, which I very much admire, but of course it was deeply irritating then, because we wanted to make a bit of money! So we made this very catchy tune and then he added a bunch of weird stuff which was all very strange.

  David Toop

  Integrity, Character, Interesting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

  Warren Buffett

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

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• There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

  Robert Powell

  Simple, Alive, Reason

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• Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Advertising, Advertisement Negative, Brands

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth.

  John Wimber

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Forget, Riddle

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• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Heart, Sadness, Gay

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