{"quotes":[{"text":"Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.","author":"Mike Bond","tags":["animals","annoyance","appease","bark","cats","express","leopard","nature","roar","sharp","the-last-savanna","wildlife"],"id":40450,"author_id":"Mike+Bond"},{"text":"A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["annoyance","handwriting","irritation","listener","reader","speaker","voice","writer","writing"],"id":61738,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I don't like this.'I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier.'I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief,' Adrian groused. 'I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.","author":"Katie MacAlister","tags":["annoyance","comedy","love-names","vampires"],"id":67189,"author_id":"Katie+MacAlister"},{"text":"So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.","author":"Rose Macaulay","tags":["annoyance","conversation","croquet","etiquette","sports"],"id":77138,"author_id":"Rose+Macaulay"},{"text":"By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.","author":"Lev Grossman","tags":["actions","annoyance","irritation","responsibility","self-awareness"],"id":86604,"author_id":"Lev+Grossman"},{"text":"You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You're more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out all the candles when the door cracks open.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["annoyance","arctic-wind","downer","fool","jerk","rascal","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","spoiler","sunshine"],"id":110953,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abusive","alone","anger","annoyance","annoyed","curse","disagreement","discredit","familiarity","hurt","hurtful-words","hurting-someone","insult","insults","intimacy","people","respect","single","toxic-people"],"id":121534,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The only way an annoyance can bring you down is if you let it.","author":"Frank Sonnenberg","tags":["annoyance","problems"],"id":129836,"author_id":"Frank+Sonnenberg"},{"text":"Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad or you shall speak and speak how mad they think you are!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["anger","annoyance","attitude","keep-calm","know-when-to-speak","temptations","words-and-silence"],"id":146218,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"...The presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people of my world, all my unhappy peers, have come to irritate, oppress and sadden me with their noisy and empty chatter, their monstrous and boundless vanity, their even more monstrous egotism, their club gossip... The endless repetition of opinions already formed and judgments already made; the automatic vomiting forth of articles read in those morning papers which are the recognised outlet of the hopeless wilderness of their ideas; the eternal daily meal of overfamiliar cliches concerning racing stables and the stalls of fillies of the human variety... The hutches of the 'petites femmes' - another worn out phrase in the dirty usury of shapeless expression!Oh my contemporaries, my dear contemporaries...Their idiotic self-satisfaction; their fat and full-blown self-sufficiency: the stupid display of their good fortune; the clink of fifty- and a hundred-franc coins forever sounding out their financial prowess, according their own reckoning; their hen-like clucking and their pig-like grunting, as they pronounce the names of certain women; the obesity of their minds, the obscenity of their eyes, and the toneless-ness of their laughter! They are, in truth, handsome puppets of amour, with all the exhausted despondency of their gestures and the slackness of their chic...Chic! A hideous word, which fits their manner like a new glove: as dejected as undertakers' mutes, as full-blown as Falstaff...Oh my contemporaries: the ceusses of my circle, to put it in their own ignoble argot. They have all welcomed the moneylenders into their homes, and have been recruited as their clients, and they have likewise played host to the fat journalists who milk their conversations for the society columns. How I hate them; how I execrate them; how I would love to devour them liver and lights - and how well I understand the Anarchists and their bombs!","author":"Jean Lorrain","tags":["anarchists","annoyance","annoyed","chatter","gossip","greed-obscenity","herd","laughter","opinion","opinions","peers","society"],"id":147086,"author_id":"Jean+Lorrain"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}