#annoyance

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#annoyance #everything #great #know #people

Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#self-reflection #sophos #music

Jessamine flushed. "I do not. I mean, I did not. I mean--ugh! Charlotte, Will's being vexing." "And the sun has come up in the east," said Jem, to no one in particular. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #tattling #humor

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

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ↗

— Mark Twain

#example #few #few things #good #good example

And then, in boating supplies, Margo located an air horn. She took it out of the box and held it up in the air, and I said, "No," and she said, "No what?" And I said, "No don't blow the air horn," except when I got to the b in blow, she squeezed on it and it let out an excruciatingly loud honk that felt in my head like the auditory equivalent of an aneurysm, and then she said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. What was that?" And I said, "Stop b-" and then she did it again. ↗

— John Green

#humor #humor