When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer. — Debbie Shapiro Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's… — Moby Copy Share Image
He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in Barney's mind, as a spark flickers and finds tinder and blazes up into a flame, a small light of resentment… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation,… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, he gets on my nerves; At other times, I burn the ladder.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“That was the main thing wrong with Mrs. Kamal. She spent such an extraordinary amount of mental energy feeling irritated that it… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
