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«There is nothing so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have»
Author: Don Herold
| Keywords:
irritating
«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»
«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.»
Author: Marian Anderson
(Singer)
| About:
Prejudice,
Safety
| Keywords:
brushing, cheek, fingers, irritating
«May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.»
Author: Patrick M. S. Blackett
(Physicist)
| About:
Failure,
Scientists
| Keywords:
apparatus, consistent, irritating, Once in a Lifetime, scientist
«It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.»
«If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertising agencies, advertising campaign, agency, brand, campaign, good fortune, imitating, irritating, steal
«Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Book of Job, book review, exceptionally, indiscriminate, inventing, irritating, praising, prolonged, reactions, reviewing, spontaneous, thankless, trash
«Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
chat, chats, irritating, overcharge, overcharged, overcharges, overcharging, pleasantly
«Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
difference of opinion, Direct proportion, irritating, triviality
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