#irritate

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#heavenly #i #irritates #laziness #me

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

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#irritated #me #pace #studied

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. ↗

— Anatole France

#bores #charm #gives #irritates #me

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

#beginning #better #book #enjoy #enjoy reading

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

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

— Avril Lavigne

#bad stuff #carbs #eating #food #i

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#ability #artistic #both #burning #eat