#irritate

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#beginning #better #book #enjoy #enjoy reading

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#ability #artistic #both #burning #eat

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#irritate #irritates #joy #lot #me

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#designer #designers #face #i #irritates

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #got #i #i am #i think

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. ↗

— Andrew Goodman

#black #constitute #current #deplorable #heeded

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

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

#change #him #i #irritated #making

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#get #i #irritated #nervous #never