Irritating Quotes - Page 5

• Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

  David Tang

  I Love Him, Men, Thinking

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• On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Articles, Forgettable

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• No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

  Nick Moran

  Character, Thinking, Play

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

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• Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

  Billy Eichner

  Sound, Actors, Outgoing

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• Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Lines, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

  Bill Vaughan

  Party, Invited

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• Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Character, Thinking, Space

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• Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Truth, People, Denial

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• She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

  Ann Brashares

  Littles, Made, Deeper

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.876, Delacorte Press

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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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• You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Breaking Dawn

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.48, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts.

  Margaret Stohl

  Wall, Hands, People

  Margaret Stohl (2013). “Icons”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Leaving, Promise

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• I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

  Bobby Knight

  People, Worry, Worried

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• Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

  Wendy McElroy

  Freedom, Mean, Self

  "XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography". Chapter 4, www.wendymcelroy.com. 1995.

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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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• Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

  Lily Allen

  Beautiful, Garden, Rose

  "Does Lily Allen's new website take digs at Cheryl Cole, Beyoncé and Perez Hilton?" by Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2014.

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