Irked Quotes

#1. Colin could have been offended or irked by her presumptive attitude, but sharp women didn't threaten him. In fact, he enjoyed watching them work. And, of course, there was the fact that he'd married one.

Colleen Gleason

#2. 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

#3. I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Jerry Saltz

#4. His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers.

Ernest Cline

#5. For some reason it always irked me when people felt it necessary to draw attention to my height as though I wasn't aware of my larger than average stature. I once responded: "Yes, and you're very small." but that didn't go over very well, even though in that situation it was true.

Penny Reid

#6. His condescending tone irked me even more. "Sex isn't the only way to show a person how you feel." "I know. I tried to give you a nightclub.

Laurelin Paige

#7. Where Chicago's vast and growing Negro population shifted and moved and stretched its great limbs ominously, reaching out and out in protest and overflowing the bounds that irked it. Her serene face and her quiet manner, her bland interest and friendly look protected her.

Edna Ferber

#8. He started the car, looking irked, as though I had started crying on purpose. Men seem to think that women do this on a regular basis, which is bullshit. Just because you don't feel something, it doesn't mean the other person is faking it. You know who thinks like that? Sociopaths.

Mishell Baker

#9. The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it ... with the iPad, Apple may have irked its somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.

John C. Dvorak

#10. Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Eric Temple Bell

#11. she hadn't starved to death like they had expected her to, and she hadn't crawled back to them for help either. It gave her satisfaction to know her parents were irked by this. They had fully expected her to fail and run back home, begging them to take her back.

Ania Ahlborn

#12. After all she'd been through, it irked her that he thought he could just look at her and know who she was. She didn't even know who she was.

Cindi Madsen

#13. The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered seat belts cowardly.

Tom Franklin

#14. Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#15. The world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a mirror of what we have become from within.

Gregg Braden

#16. Does he look at you, the way I look at him?

Tarryn Fisher

#17. Jaxton met his gaze for just a second, then scowled and turned away.
The recognition in that look was painful; years of recollections and long forgotten
emotions buzzed through his brain. Ashamed of the flare of attraction he'd just allowed
himself, he turned away and faked a smile.

Elaine White

#18. I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

Lauren Groff

#19. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.

Nina Sankovitch

#20. To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

Diet Eman

#21. The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

Eckhart Tolle

#22. With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Michael Jackson

#23. You are the beloved conscious reflection of this universe. You are here to enjoy the beauty and joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Don't lose today by worrying about tomorrow!!!

John F. Herbert

#25. There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

#26. If you want to see theater you go to New York.

John O'Hurley