A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

Akshaye Khanna
Akshaye Khanna

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

Alycia Debnam-Carey
Alycia Debnam-Carey

I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective.

Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

B. J. Penn
B. J. Penn

I know there are a lot of others who are willing to take shortcuts for the sake of money, but when I see that... I get real irritated. I hate it.

Baron Corbin
Baron Corbin

I was always that little kid that irritated people.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

Chris Long
Chris Long

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.