Best Irritants Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Men Art Given Technology Greater Violence Habit Drug Prove Experiments Plague Initials Psych Specifications Irritants

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.”

Thinking Enough Life Is Existence Quality Ultimate Victim Mere Drag Vocation Irritants

Author:Elvis Costello

“You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?”

People Thinking Knows Looks Mean Persons Home Natural Consequence Standing Leaving Shoes Forgotten Like Me Smoking Irritating Sidewalk Irritated Natural Consequences Irritants

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“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.”

Thinking Kind Littles Fun Extras Be Kind Tricky Footnotes Irritants Extra Work

Author:David Foster Wallace

“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.”

Kind Use Causes Produce Painful Pearls Sleeves Futility Oysters Aces Irritants

Book:Imaginary crimes

Source: Imaginary crimes

“Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!”

“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.”

Ideas Greatness Europe Importance Syndromes Picnics Irritants

Book:In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State

Source: In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State

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

Community Trump Locals Minors Banned Local Community Irritants

Author:Corri Wilson

“The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard adaption which they didn't ask for. I worry about them; I worry about their mother.”

Children Real Hard Young Mother Asks Father Worry Young Children Irritants

Author:Julian Assange

“In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us. "Living with strangers" was therefore not something to last and did not call for developing appropriate arts and skills. Now, however, it looks like that diasporic context of our living will not go away - it will be there forever, so learning how to live with strangers day in, day out without abandoning my own strangeness is high on the agenda.”

Looks Art Lasts Differences My Own Forever Tomorrow Skills Stranger Disappear Expected Aliens Developing Appropriate Agendas Going Away Temporary Modernity Strangeness Irritants

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.”

Long Taken Crime Members Majors Stranger Minorities Temporary Smallest Departure Binding Deportation Irritants

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.”

Want Wells Creatures Behavior Plant Chemicals Warfare Resorts Saturated Toxins Irritants Chemical Warfare

Author:Steven Pinker

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

Inspirational Moments Spiritual Cease Gods Will Obedience That Moment Quests Irritants

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.”

Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!”

Moments Hands Together Forever Brother Draws Eternity Divinity Brothers And Sisters Hand In Hand Lure Irritants

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“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)”

Should Has Beens Bits Special Should Have Cures Ruins Should Have Been Herpes Irritants

Book:The Dream-Hunter

Source: The Dream-Hunter

“And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.”

Thinking World Long Pain Life Is Products Comfort Guarantees Rest Of Your Life Long Life Irritants

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable that could be regarded as a pearl, and I can assure those who worked with me it was you who made the pearls and I was merely the grain of sand, the irritant to produce the pearls.”

People Thinking Has Beens Made I Can Science Values Produce Research Valuable Sand Grain Pearls Grains Of Sand Irritants

Author:Nicholas Kurti

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.”

Reality Life Is Music Ultimate Vocation Irritants

Author:Elvis Costello

“Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.”

Giving Matter Principles Evidence Stimulus Animated Susceptible Irritants

Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“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.”

Years Shows Tvs Activity Hollywood Regard Corporations Minors Tv Shows Playgrounds Multinationals Multinational Corporations Irritants

Author:Peter Bart

“Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.”

People Speak Patient Oil Remove Be Patient Motor Suspension Irritants Motor Oil

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.”

“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.”

Knows Ends Moments The End Of The Day Layers Pearls Irritants

Author:Ken Burns

“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.”

World Whole Facts Solutions Claims Crisis Western Whole World Communism Symptoms Western World Irritants

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“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.”

Trying Creative Sand Oysters Irritants

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.”

Heart Soul Silence Noise Unseen Relentless Invaders Irritants

Author:Max Lucado

“We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all”

Ifs Giving Hands Poor Responsibility Rich Conditions Benefits Prepared Charity Heal Our Society Expecting Taking Responsibility Horde Irritants

Book:Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches

Source: Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches

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

Humans May Inspiration Emotion Constant Foolish Enjoyed Serving Illogical Irritants Mr Spock

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.”

Needs Done Eye Animal Known Stupid Example Conscious Liberation Substance Agency Regulation Tested Rabbits Cleaners Stupid Things Ovens Animal Liberation Callous Caustic Irritants

Author:Peter Singer