Top 100 Quotes About Cranky
#1. I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.
Christa Miller
#2. If we are selfish and we feel cranky, then we believe that nobody has the right to be happy around us.
Miguel Ruiz
#3. But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
Fisher Stevens
#4. Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.
Paul Samuelson
#5. In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.
James Wolcott
#6. Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.
After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
Dave Eggers
#8. The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.
John D. Voelker
#9. Loser," I groaned, as I rolled my eyes.
"I may be a loser, but I fuck like a champ. You should try it sometime. Maybe you wouldn't be so cranky.
Teresa Mummert
#10. I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
Dolly Parton
#11. Yummy had been hiding under a layer of cranky-pants. I really hoped I would see less frowning and more abs from now on.
Melissa Haag
#12. At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
Bono
#13. I know I'm immature in some ways, but inside me there's a cranky old lady yelling at the damn kids to get off her lawn. She's been there awhile. I've decided to call her Mabel.
Lucy A. Snyder
#14. I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.
Robin McKinley
#15. I can't have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food.
Mindy Kaling
#16. I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.
George Saunders
#17. These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'
Lauren Graham
#18. The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it's the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole.
Jodi Picoult
#19. NOW CAME OUR INTRODUCTION to Smiley, former rodeo clown, whose name outside the costume might as well have been Cranky as Hell.
Ivan Doig
#20. Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.
Richard Corliss
#21. I might be old and cranky, but I'm not bloody stupid.
Jennifer Estep
#22. Right now Captain Cranky and Commander Hard-Ass weren't tops on his list of people he wanted to be around...
Katherine McIntyre
#23. In the span of a few minuted, he'd gone from his usual Mr. Cranky-Pants to Sir Kissy Smiles-A-Lot.
Julie Ann Walker
#24. As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.
Edward Abbey
#25. I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
Terence McKenna
#26. I go to the gym regularly, not just for the way I look but because it makes me less cranky, too.
Bonnie Langford
#27. And I have lifetimes inside me, I'm the girl you see standing here,and I'm a cranky old professor, and I'm a peace-loving man, and I'm a killer and a maid and a king and a peasant. I am a dozen more. You think you're old? You got nothing on me.
Derek Landy
#28. From my admittedly cranky perspective, Bush/Cheney are lousy on the Bill of Rights, Clinton/Gore were lousy on the Bill of Rights, and everyone within bribing distance of the 2008 election (Hillary, McCain, Giuliani) are lousy on the Bill of Rights, too.
Matt Welch
#29. The house, she'd explained to them many times, had spoken to her; she'd listened, and it turned out they'd understood one another very well indeed. Greenacres was an imperious old lady, a little worn, to be sure, cranky in her own way-but who wouldn't be?
Kate Morton
#30. It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.
Frank Beddor
#31. This would be my first time wanting to slaughter a reader, but then again, I can pretend she's one of those cranky ass reviewers that think they are literary gods.
Adam Reese
#32. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually, he offered to wake you up himself, but since its five a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.
Cassandra Clare
#33. Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.
Jerry Seinfeld
#34. Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his father's study door to have a chat.
Geoffrey Wood
#35. You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.
Erin Hunter
#36. In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant.
Richard Corliss
#37. That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
Jim Harrison
#38. Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.
Paul Krugman
#39. I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.
John Green
#40. Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.
James Patterson
#41. It's a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron)
Reverse PMS? (Artemis)
Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you're cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. Dorian offered a lazy grin in return, believe it or not, this ship has an unnatural number of attractive men and women on board. You'll fit right in, and fit in with the cranky immortals, I suppose.
Sarah J. Maas
#44. They [leftists] are outraged when people are not cranky and not miserable. They want everybody to be, if they are. It isn't fair that some people should be enjoying life when other people don't.
Rush Limbaugh
#45. My pulse slowed, and as Jenks charmed the ladies behind the counter into flustered goo, I tried to look cool and professional among the plastic toys and paper hats. It wasn't going to happen, so I tried for dangerous. I think I managed cranky ...
Kim Harrison
#46. A lot of people don't think my brother has a temper. It's like they assume I somehow sucked up the entire quota of "cranky," and now Shaun's perpetually cheery and ready for a challenge while I glower at people from behind my sunglasses and plot the downfall of the Western world.
Mira Grant
#47. My cranky cardiologist says I'm destined to die in the kitchen.
Drew Carey
#48. I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.
Sarah Vowell
#49. I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
Robert Lansing
#50. Cage felt like he was looking in a mirror thirty years in the future. A cranky, pissed off, judgmental bastard of a mirror.
Madeline Sheehan
#51. He couldn't leave a friend to die. Even someone as cranky as Alby.
James Dashner
#52. I didn't forget it. It's a cranky bastard when it doesn't get time to snuggle in my bunk. It was napping, not dead.
Kim Holden
#53. God, I love it when you're cranky like this. Promise to still be pissed when I get home, okay?" (Ty)
"I don't think that's going to be a problem" (Zane)
Abigail Roux
#54. Before you find yourself stranded in the woods with a cranky apex predator, ask yourself: Do I really want to go on a camping trip with a vampire? The answer is probably going to be no.
Molly Harper
#55. If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer
#56. Chase is playing escort this morning. He gets cranky if we keep him waiting too long."
"We wouldn't want the man with the Taser to get cranky.
Amanda E. Alvarez
#57. Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos Santana
#58. I love that there's no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day is a new chance to listen longer and be braver and love more. We get to try again and again and again.
Anna White
#59. For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.
Betty Fussell
#60. I'm a lot less cranky when it's just me and my dog.
Bob Peterson
#62. Why do you paint, Nona?"...
'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.
Kimberly Stuart
#63. I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.
Libba Bray
#64. I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
Alfred Nobel
#65. I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
James Sellars
#66. In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
Hank Azaria
#67. Seeing their cranky old camp director immortalized in stone, wearing a diaper and spewing water from his mouth, made her feel a little better.
Rick Riordan
#68. One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
"Meaning you?"
"What else?
Cassandra Clare
#69. He's fine. He's fine,' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.
'Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here?
Anne Enright
#70. I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.
Margaret Maron
#71. Having our old Gran in the car was like having a cranky 'Tassie Tiger' sitting in the back. You never knew when she might jump forward and bite you on the back of your neck.
Elizabeth M. Thompson
#73. I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.
James Patterson
#74. You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.
Lisa Henry
#75. I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm very cranky around other people.
Whoopi Goldberg
#76. You can't work me, Liv. I know you're a bitch, I know you're cranky, I know you're loving, I know you're smart and funny, I know you're giving and generous. I'm not walking off because you're not flawless. I don't want a diamond, I want a wife.
- Marc to Olivia
Lauren Dane
#77. No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.
Simon R. Green
#78. When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.
Siri Hustvedt
#79. I'm going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I'm a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge.
Kim Gruenenfelder
#80. Hadn't one of my all-time favorite reveries been to become a cranky hermit, live unperturbed in my house, and have things brought to me like a monarch or tribal lord?
Laurie Notaro
#81. Good friendships are like breakfast. You think you're too busy to eat breakfast, but then you find yourself exhausted and cranky halfway through the day, and discover that your attempt to save time totally backfired.
Shauna Niequist
#82. There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
Peter Jennings
#83. Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
Peter Higgs
#84. You're not one of those cranky old people who uses their age as an excuse to be a prick, are you?
Corrine Jackson
#85. And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.
Thomas King
#86. Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Willa Cather
#87. Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.
Alexei Panshin
#88. I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.
Frank Stella
#89. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
Willem Dafoe
#90. Alec had been cranky that day, having wrenched his arm almost out of its socket during a fight with a dragon demon.
Cassandra Clare
#91. As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.
Will Ferrell
#92. If you don't get in them and rev them up every now and then, they turn in to cranky old bitches who refuse to do a damn thing for you.
Connerism from Quinn's Need
S.J.D. Peterson
#93. Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing, as far as life in Christ is concerned, the differences between men and women are irrelevant.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#94. One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.
Yitzhak Rabin
#95. Akri done left his Simi on his arm for far too long. She done got tired and cranky. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#96. I don't believe in the no-carb diet ... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
Karisma Kapoor
#97. When these kinds of things happen in my life, things that are so clearly filled with more beauty or redemption or reconciliation than my cranky personality and stony heart could ever manufacture on their own, I just have no other explanation than this: God. Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#98. Your cranky moods are mine to deal with, seeing to your health, providing you with food, dealing with your misbehaviors, fucking you, rocking you, touching you.
Carolyn Faulkner
#99. Grandma kept turning around in the front seat of their old Fiat saying, "Look at you girls! On, Lena, you are a beauty!"
Lena seriously wished she would stop saying that, because it was irritating, and besides, how was cranky Effie supposed to feel?
Ann Brashares
#100. And all Jess knew about Gwen was that she threatened Brendon Shaw's cranky sister with acid during the wedding. Not that Jess blamed her or anything, because Marissa Shaw could be a real bitch, but Lock deserved a lovely sow who loved him, pampered him, and understood his obsession with honey.
Shelly Laurenston
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