Old And Crotchety Quotes

#1. Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.

Alice Hoffman

#2. 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

#3. I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny ... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

Demetri Martin

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

Rachel Hawkins

#5. You're a terrible cook, Daniel."
"I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts."
"I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

Lisa Lutz

#6. Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, you shall see life differently and you shall get a better understanding of the journey of life: how you lived it and how you should have lived it!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. Am I willing to give up my lofty ideas of success - even the "success" of serving God in great and visible ways - and instead content myself to serve in the mundane, to be largely invisible, and to meet the needs of those who can't return the favor?

Anonymous

#8. 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

#9. I don't want to be thought of as the "girl who was shot by the Taliban" but the "girl who fought for education." This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

Malala Yousafzai

#10. Don't waste your time on jealousy ...

Mary Schmich

#11. I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

Penny Marshall

#12. 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

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

Tony Horton

#14. I cannot believe that everything must be subordinated to a single end. There are means which cannot be excused.

Albert Camus

#15. She was small-boned and exquisite, and naked like the rest of them, with nothing on her but a garland of flowers and a pink hair ribbon, frequent props on the sex-kiddie sites.

Margaret Atwood

#16. He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were, and Joshua's life hadn't led him closer than that. By accident his actions had been law-abiding.

Alan Sillitoe