Agitating Quotes

#1. I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.

Ainslie Hogarth

#3. His hand still rested on her breast, but his fingers had stilled. The touch that had been so agitating now felt comforting. As though he soothed her by it.

Meredith Duran

#4. Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

Mary Webb

#5. We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.

Asger Jorn

#6. We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.

Salar Kamangar

#7. Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, its brilliance shines on.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#8. Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

Koichi Tohei

#9. The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Wilfred Owen

#10. The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

Patrick Kavanagh

#11. The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

#12. Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

Andrew Bird

#14. We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.

Ice Cube

#15. When the mind is most empty
It is most full.

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

#16. Introduction to Amanda. - The equal measure of fear and desire her double-barrelled bust induced was plain to see. It might have been a mundane observation but it was something of an epiphany to Amanda just what it meant to be the only person in the room wearing a bra.

Francine Scott

#17. The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

Joanne Greenberg

#18. Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

Patrick Ness

#19. Shit, you're superlate!"
Reese shrugged as she took in her beautifully made up sister. "Sorry, I couldn't get my hair to look right."
Piper scrunched up her face. "Did you even try" Jesus, you look like roadkill.

Toni Aleo

#20. The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'

Jerry Seinfeld

#21. I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

Vera Wang

#22. Every single one of us has the unique opportunity to create awareness and influence change

Gretchen Bleiler

#23. I close my eyes not to forget the way you treated me but to remember the good things that has faded away in my memories about you.

Nigar Siddiqui

#24. I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

Rasmus Lerdorf

#25. I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Jesse Eisenberg

#26. In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

James Dyson

#27. You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Rashida Jones