Top 55 Temperamental Quotes
#1. Curly: Wait a minute! Y'know I'm temperamental.
Moe: Ya, 95 percent temper,5 percent mental
The Three Stooges
#2. I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.
James Hong
#3. I like temperamental men.' 'There aren't any. Men don't know how to be really angry or really happy
and the ones that do, go to pieces.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
Fanny Lewald
#6. Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.
Roy Andries De Groot
#7. Family trees full of nuts have nothing on me. My family is temperamental. Half temper, half mental.
Kelly Moran
#8. My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.
Eva Gabor
#9. You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
John Lydon
#10. The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
Montserrat Caballe
#11. Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.
Winston Churchill
#12. Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.
Elizabeth Bear
#13. I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.
Graham Moore
#14. It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
Tilda Swinton
#15. Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
Gordon Ramsay
#16. Love is temperamental. tiring. it makes demands. love uses you. changes its mind.
Janet Fitch
#17. In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
Kenneth Tynan
#18. Why do you always refer to vehicles as she?
Because they can be temperamental and expensive and sometimes difficult to start, but every man wants one.
Beverly Long
#19. British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
Ivor Novello
#20. If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
Sol Hurok
#21. I'm very emotional, very explosive, very temperamental.
James Fox
#22. Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Gloria Swanson
#23. First loves were supposed to be flimsy and temperamental. They were supposed to burn bright and fade fast. They weren't supposed to stick. They weren't supposed to eat away at a man's heart, his capacity for life.
Alessandra Torre
#24. I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
Ted Kotcheff
#25. I have no idea why, but I'm grinning back at her. This temperamental, wild creature in front of me who has the nerve to put me in my place.
A. Zavarelli
#26. I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Frank Black
#27. I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can't shape the world into what they want it to be. It's easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.
Joshua Gaylord
#30. Just who am I?" the rough baritone asked in the infuriatingly amused tone one might use with a temperamental child. You're a monster, she wanted to say. A giant - huge and thickly muscled and terrifying. But she flung back her answer like her papa's own daughter. "You're the rebel bastard Glen Lyon.
Kimberly Cates
#31. I am an impatient, temperamental reader. Anything long-winded, high-flown or gushing irritates me, so does everything that is vague and indistinct, in fact anything that unnecessarily holds the reader up, whether in a novel, a biography or an intellectual argument.
Stefan Zweig
#32. Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
Patrick Rothfuss
#33. When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#34. There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.
Robert Graves
#35. Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#36. No one dared agree with her. She was temperamental in the best of times, and pregnancy wasn't one of them. No one wanted to risk their neck, not when her apron said it all: K*SS MY *SS - Would you like to buy a vowel?
Jill Shalvis
#37. I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
Lou Reed
#38. Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold.
Eric Wilson
#39. Here I sit like a brainless robot writing the uncensored, chaotic, evil thoughts springing about in my temperamental female brain.
Coco J. Ginger
#40. I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
Ida Lupino
#41. Mark it down. God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders.
Max Lucado
#42. You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas ...
Jim Holt
#43. An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.
Fredric March
#44. I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.
Paulette Goddard
#45. Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
Shania Twain
#46. I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!
Dorothy Hamill
#47. The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)
Maria Grazia Swan
#48. Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.
Geoffrey Rush
#49. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Samuel Ullman
#50. Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.
Thomas Merton
#51. no longer dealing with reasonable, intelligent adults but with temperamental lunatics who had about as much self-control as hormonal teenagers.
Olivia Rigal
#52. Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
Sarah Addison Allen
#53. I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.
Jacki Weaver
#54. To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.
Robert Greene
#55. Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
Doug Plank
