Crotchety Old Quotes

#1. Tantrums are a noble and time-tested strategy,she said airily. Particularly if you have a good set of lungs and are facing down a crotchety old priest. I know Stewart; he always bends if you make enough noise.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.

Tony Horton

#3. (B)ut a second can split in a million different directions ...

Neal Shusterman

#4. But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

Albert Einstein

#5. I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

Josh Turner

#6. We might do better, instead, to distance ourselves, both practically and emotionally, from those whom we consider to be our equals and yet who have grown richer than us.

Alain De Botton

#7. I'd assumed he'd be old and burly with a side order of crotchety.

Rachel Hawkins

#8. Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

Arthur Hertzberg

#9. I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.

Tony Lema

#10. I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.

Dennis Eckersley

#11. Why would he try to ruin something so beautiful? What is the world he was trying, and failing to create?
What is the world Runnemood is trying to create? And why must they both create their worlds by destroying?

Kristin Cashore

#12. No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

Jill Lepore

#13. Hi shook his head. The guy's not a rocket scientist. Or a rock scientist. He's dumb, is what I'm saying.

Kathy Reichs

#14. If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

Katy Perry

#15. There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

Sam Keen

#16. Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

Jalaja Bonheim