My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
- Elvis CostelloLike 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.
- Ken BurnsVegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living
- Anthony BourdainIt`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.
- Peter BartIt 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.
- Andrew Lindsey