I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Leonard Cohen

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

A. S. Byatt

Time Word Use

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Abraham Lincoln

Life Way Used

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

Akshaye Khanna

Success Business Art

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

Alison Goldfrapp

Us Too Thing

I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Time Mom Men

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

Ariel Gore

Relationship You Usual

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

Avril Lavigne

Time Food Car

I know there are a lot of others who are willing to take shortcuts for the sake of money, but when I see that... I get real irritated. I hate it.

B. J. Penn

Money Willing Will

I was always that little kid that irritated people.

Baron Corbin

Ways Way Ted

All these Lil' rappers, I'm just kind of getting real irritated by it. I said, 'You know what? Drop the Lil'. Forget it. I'm Bow Wow.

Bow Wow

You Wow Us

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

Catherine Deneuve

Very Us Tense

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.

Chris Long

Yeah Thing Thin

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Christopher Hitchens

Teacher Young You

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.

Craig Brown

Will Up Tin

Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

Damon Wayans, Jr.

Time Life You

Because you've been exposed to Western tonal music, you know after a certain chord sequence what the next possibilities are. Your brain has compiled a statistical map of which ones are most likely and least likely. If the song keeps hitting the most likely notes, you'll get bored, and if it's always the least likely ones, you'll get irritated.

Daniel Levitin

Music Your You

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

Daniel Radcliffe

Would Wit Want

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

Dario Argento

Wanting Want UN

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

Wow Will Where

Even though you're irritated or disappointed about a game, never lose your human side.

Edgar Davids

Your You Though

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

Emanuel Celler

The biggest change I notice in the winter months is with my skin. I find all the cold weather and central heating leaves it feeling more dull, dry and easily irritated. So for me, finding little ways to make my skincare routine work harder is my winter beauty priority.

Emma Willis

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

Eric Betzig

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

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

Hans Rosling

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

All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

I always was irritated doing network television... You're in love, you make love. That happens.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Jerry Saltz

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?

Jessi Klein

My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

Jessica Valenti

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

Jim Harrison

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

Jimmie Johnson

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

Jodi Kantor

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

John Lydon

In fact, I get angry when people laugh at me. I go to the airport and the ground hostess starts laughing at me when she sees me. I get irritated and ask them if I just did some comedy for them to laugh like that. But then I apologise because I know they must have remembered some movie scene that I did.

Johnny Lever

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

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

Larry Bird

Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Leo Szilard

I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Leonard Cohen

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

Lewis Black

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

Louise Erdrich

Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.

Lzzy Hale

The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.

Maria Bamford

People get really irritated by mental illness.

Maria Bamford

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

Mark Kurlansky

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!

Martin Freeman

I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.

Michael Ovitz