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Quotes About Irritation

JOE COULDN'T STAND the noise. The giant room they
~ Jane Smiley
And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs. Mr. Landowsky
~ Janet Evanovich
Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
~ Rahul Dravid
At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.
~ Joshua Bell
When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.
~ Joshua Bell
The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.
~ Robin Sloan
I like bothering people and stirring things up.
~ Tim Daly
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
Ah! what a nuisance people's people are!
~ Oscar Wilde
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
~ P.C. Cast
She was a kind-hearted girl, and it irked her to have to be continually acting as a black frost in Freddie's garden of dreams.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Por qué me pican las pulgas y los sargentos literarios?
~ Pablo Neruda
My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life.
~ Pat Conroy
single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her
~ Pat Conroy
The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.
~ Dana Reinhardt
I hate that mouse
~ Daniel Keyes
Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.
~ Gary Barlow
Anger is short-lived madness.
~ Horace
Anger is a brief lunacy.
~ Horace
Anger is a momentary madness.
~ Horace
Son of a bitch, I'm sick of these dolphins.
~ Wes Anderson
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
In my youth, I should have chafed and fretted under the irritation of my own unreasonable state of mind. In my age, I knew better, and went out philosophically to walk it off.
~ Wilkie Collins
The sad truth is, I am a martyr to my own sense of order. All untidiness, all want of system and regularity, cause me the acutest irritation. My attention is distracted, my composure is upset;
~ Wilkie Collins