#irritation

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that were both generalised and existential (why is he like that?) and also highly specific (how hard is it to remember to put the top back on the yoghurt?). ↗

— John Lanchester

#irritation #love #relationships #family

Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#respect

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#annoyance #irritation #responsibility #self-awareness #self-awareness

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i think #irritation #lead #life #people

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#irritation #pet #whole

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. ↗

— Horace

#cannot #irritation #prompted #restrain #temper

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. ↗