A Quote by John Cage

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

John Cage

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John Cage
American - Composer
September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992

Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.

Derren Brown

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

Joshua Ferris

When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.

Jim Norton

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Nora Roberts

He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around." "Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?" Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around.

Mira Grant

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Daniel Handler

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

Gertrude Stein

If I was on Game of Thrones, I think the nudity and sex questions would probably get irritating, but this is a show about sex.

Lizzy Caplan

I like being irritating.

Timothy Morton

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Viggo Mortensen

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

Will Durant

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

Ken Livingstone

It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself.