Irritant Quotes

#1. Zoe also knew her stepmother did not love her. Or even like her very much. In truth, Zoe was pretty sure her stepmother hated her. Sheila treated her at worst as an irritant, at best as if she were invisible.

David Walliams

#2. My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Elvis Costello

#3. Yes, he's like a rash for which there's no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he's a very special irritant. (Arik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. Every now and then a perverse downdraft would make the smoke whirl and puff toward him and he breathed some of it in.
It built dreams in the same way that a small irritant may build a pearl in an oyster.

Stephen King

#5. I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.

David Foster Wallace

#6. May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant

Leonard Nimoy

#7. Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

Max Lucado

#8. There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

Sheila Ballantyne

#9. The deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage.

Kevin Thoman

#10. It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

Peter Bart

#11. A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

Jane Yolen

#12. Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.

Douglas Brinkley

#13. It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

Whittaker Chambers

#14. When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

Charles A. Murray

#15. In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology ... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

Marshall McLuhan

#16. We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about

Edward N. Luttwak

#17. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

#18. Curiosity was a mild irritant, but nothing in the face of fear like this. By doing nothing, I determined that nothing would change, and it didn't. People moan about being in limbo, but actually, I found limbo the safest place to be.

Anna Maxted

#19. When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Ezra Taft Benson

#20. Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

Ken Burns

#21. Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

Corri Wilson

#22. Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#23. the confidence people express often reflects their personalities rather than their knowledge, memory, or abilities.

Christopher Chabris

#24. I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I. And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#25. I don't know what popping-and-locking is but I know to lock my car door whenever people are doing it.

Daniel Tosh

#26. The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

Donald Miller

#27. Why does God always have to take the best?

Lisa De Jong

#28. Watch it ... people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease ... all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.

Arlene J. Chai

#29. I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.

Jeff Kinney

#30. It's just a figment of the imagination.

Jacob Zuma

#31. Learning to forgive is the greatest way to find inner peace.

Debasish Mridha

#32. We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

Ernest Holmes

#33. There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

Norm MacDonald