Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs, it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
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.
Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.
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?'
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.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'
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.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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.
The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
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 am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
