Curmudgeonly Quotes

#1. Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.

Jonathan Gottschall

#2. Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

John C. McGinley

#3. I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

Anne Carson

#4. I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

Julia Glass

#5. I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

Pat Conroy

#6. Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live for their winters, simply because it means they may wear big coats with lots of pockets to put their things in.

Benjamin Hale

#7. Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.

Lisa Wingate

#8. Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

Coco J. Ginger

#9. We just made so much sense together even if we made no sense at all

Jay Crownover

#10. Reimagine a way communities can be rebuilt.

Candy Chang

#11. I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I ... I wanted to have the daring ... and I killed her.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Jane Howard

#13. There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it.

Liane Moriarty

#14. Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.

Bell Hooks