Laura Kightlinger Quotes

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he's being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.

I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

I have a lot of hostility.

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

It’s just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I’d be fine. (Aimee)

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.