Quotes About Frustration

All computers expect to be yelled at. There's not a single computer in the whole world that hasn't been sworn at. Even the discreet little VDU with the crossed keys monogram on the keyboard that sits on the Pope's desk in his office in the Vatican has in its time heard language that'd make a Marine blush.

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

Telkens als hij de nieuwe, slotloze deur van De Becker passeerde, stak hij haar zonder te kloppen open, brulde keihard 'Onnozelaar!' en smakte haar even keihard weer dicht

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

I don't think two blokes having the same fucking argument for 16 years over and over is the stuff of opera. Oasis: the Opera would be very short. The fat lady would refuse to sing it.

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.  

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.

Alright, who's the wise guy who turned the light out at the end of my tunnel?

Some people come into our lives just to be a source of irritation.

The last time my ship came in . . . I was waiting at the airport.

When all else fails blame your high school drama teacher.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

Fuck you, Taft.

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.

Now I understand why some species eat their young.

And she wanted to answer Ruby, wanted to say something intelligible and calm and hip and funny so the work could take precedence again. But the words got caught in the grind of her back teeth as she shred silk and canvas and paper and hair. The rip and shriek of silk prying her teeth apart. And it all came out a growling.

And again that idea makes you crazy, that any dumb, stupid freak thing--being late for a puppet show, a lightning strike, somebody falling in a store--can bomb your plans to hell.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Kinnock was dead.

ah've been on t'dole all mi life in fucking Leeds!

I'm getting to be like a white man," she said. "I'm getting in a hurry for you to tell me what this is all about.