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Quotes About Irritation

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.
~ Peter Beard
There are days technology is a complete bother.
~ Rachel Hauck
At this there was a great uproar. Mr Churchill asked that the woman should come to the platform, and this she proceeded to do. The audience hissed her vigorously, and the complacent smile with which she regarded them in return appeared to cause still more irritation. The Chairman made her sit down on a vacant chair and Mr Churchill appealed again for order. 'Will everybody', he said, 'be quiet. Let us hear what she has to say.
~ Randolph S. Churchill
I knocked stuff out of the medicine cabinet. Things rolled into the sink. 'Where's the aspirin?' I said. I knocked down more things. I didn't care. 'Goddamn it,' I said. Things kept falling.
~ Raymond Carver
It is always the little things that make you sore.
~ Raymond Chandler
Ringil, preparing to hand out some straightforward reassurance, felt mischief sparkle through him instead. It was the call of impending risk, he knew, the itch to action—and a long building irritation with Nyanar that finally flared to life. He put on a breezy grin. "But my lord Nyanar! That's what gives life its savor, is it not? Where would we be if the future were always known?
~ Richard K. Morgan
Time spent with the man was a bit like spending time with sand down one's trousers.
~ Julie Anne Long
The man irritated her just like a rash.
~ Julie Garwood
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
~ Will Cuppy
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
~ GG Allin
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
~ Jonathan Swift
[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.
~ Gail Carriger, Heartless
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.
~ Big Sean
precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.
~ A Gentlemen
Someone with a deeper inner awareness will not be bothered by outer irritation.
~ Debasish Mridha
The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.
~ Surya Das
The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down.
~ Auliq Ice
Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.
~ David Eddings
There's an empty seat next to me in the 'intensely aggravating' section…and it's got your name on it
~ M.A. George, Relativity
The na at the end of banana annoys me as much as it would you if it were bananana.
~ Lance Manion
People tend to annoy me as long as they're talking, and sometimes when they're not.
~ Jana Deleon