I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.
WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.
So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.
As an NBA fan, there is nothing more irritating than when the league's credibility is challenged by cockamamy conspiracy theories.
To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”
I'm not interested in babies at all. Babies to me are like wasps: pointless, irritating and even one can ruin a picnic. They're just not my bag at all.
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
A person on dialysis undergoes very heavy and irritating treatment, and in time, it seems more than you can bear.
Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.
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.
It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
I am very opinionated and sometimes a very irritating character but, I have learnt that the quest to learn is a journey, not a destination.
Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."
When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.
I wanted to do action, and it was a bit irritating when people called me a chocolate boy. I can do other films, too.
There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'
Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
I struggle with candida - usually it manifests on the skin and can be so pesty, painful, and irritating! It also feeds off sugar and gluten and is nearly impossible to rid yourself of.
There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.
On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.
A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.
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.
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer;
To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;
I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.
Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.
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.
No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.
I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.
This site uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience.
More info...