Crossly Quotes

#1. the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything

Boris Pasternak

#2. I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.

Joss Whedon

#3. He then eyed Tristan and took a step back, stumbling over his cloak. "You must be the earl's twin brother. But your eyes ... how are they so green?"
"They were brown until your heathen of a cousin shot me through the heart," Tristan said crossly.

Chelsea Fine

#4. But I rather thought
I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair."
"I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Joanne Harris

#5. It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Load of old tosh," said Peter, crossly.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Bother the right man!" cried Miss Findlater, crossly. "I do hate that kind of talk. It makes one feel dreadful - like a prize cow or something. Surely, we have got beyond that point of view in these days.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. Now she smiles as if I'm her favorite chocolate bar.
And I love you, Jordan.

Marianne Curley

#9. Clearly we have all the time in the world," she said crossly. "Feel free to start way back with the dinosaurs - just as long as you get to the Carnevares and Alcantaras sometime.

Kai Meyer

#10. The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.

Martin Jacques

#11. I don't like work
no man does
but I like what is in the work
the chance to find yourself. Your own reality
for yourself not for others
what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

Joseph Conrad

#12. I see you've met Patrick of Ludlow," I replied, trying to stifle a giggle, for Tiger was thirty feet up in the shabby atrium , perched high upon a chandelier. "How long have you been up there?"
"Half an hour," he answered crossly, "with only a lot of dust and the Transient Moose for company.

Jasper Fforde

#13. Oh, very well," he said crossly. "Come along if you must, but please keep quiet so I may think. I need to think!"
"Yes, sir," I said, pulling on my clothes. "I will try not to be a burden to you sir.

Rick Yancey

#14. Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

Benjamin Spock

#15. I didn't bounce, I coughed," said Tigger crossly.
"Bouncy or coffy, it's all the same at the bottom of the river.

A.A. Milne

#16. What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.

Douglas Adams

#17. Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

Nazr Mohammed

#18. You can't be disgusting to people just because they annoy you!" she exclaimed very crossly. "Thousands of people annoy me! Millions of people annoy millions of people all the time! ... You have to put up with them.

Hilary McKay

#19. Damen said, 'Men, sometimes.'
'In the absence of women?'
'When I want them.'
'If I'd known that, I might have felt a frisson of danger, lying next to you.'
'You did know that,' said Damen

C.S. Pacat

#20. earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"' 'Found what?' said the Duck. 'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course

Lewis Carroll

#21. I got the memo, Nathan," I interrupt him crossly. "You don't love me. Aren't going to love me. I hear it loud and clear. A fucking cuddle session isn't going to change that.

Alessandra Torre

#22. If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#23. It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough.

A.A. Milne

#24. Crossly, Blue realized that Gansey had now called her Jane so often that it felt strange to hear him say her real name.

Maggie Stiefvater

#25. He admonished husbands and wives to love each other as Christ loved the church. Love begets love, and when you reward each other you honor God.

Suzetta Perkins

#26. There's a way of doing it!" Hermione said crossly. "There just has to be!" She seemed to be taking the library's lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her before.

J.K. Rowling

#27. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#28. Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

Ja Rule

#29. You should've warned me," Tink muttered crossly. "I'm the one who had to see his dong swinging around

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. Since the opposition (shadow) is capable of preventing the audience (hero) from achieving success, the goal of a business narrative is to defeat the opposition (shadow).

Luis Cubero