#irritate

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground. ↗

— Dario Argento

#ground #irritated #kept #me #old

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#fiction #irritates #life #perfection #well

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #book #boost #confused #confusion

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#anything #been #describe #detective #detective stories

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#around #attitude #away #bland #books

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#always #else #find #go #here

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

#been #between #feeling #getting #government

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#appears #behavior #below #correct #corrupt

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

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