After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. - Evelyn Underhill
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises. - Ambrose Bierce
Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking? - Terry Eagleton
Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours. - Ben Lerner
A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. - Alan Ball
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. - Kin Hubbard
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. - Don Herold
Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is irritating when someone talking to me,When she is not talking - pavankumar nagaraj
I think we all keep irritating situations in our head to long, until we finally realize it’s taking up valuable space. - Ron Baratono
Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating. - Edward Gorey