Troglodyte Quotes

#1. Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

David Harsanyi

#2. Tell her I got detention for defending her honour," Alec shouted in the distance.
"Did he really?"
"Well, he got detention, but mostly for calling Akira a close-minded troglodyte," she said.

Cecily White

#3. Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

Clifford Stoll

#4. Kiwi thought back to his first weeks, when insults had been impossible for him. One time he'd called Deemer a troglodyte but his delivery had been tentative and way, way too slow, as if the insult were a fork tenderly entering a steak.

Karen Russell

#5. The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

John Burnside

#6. I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

Emile M. Cioran

#7. Plutarch gave her nine languages, including Hebrew and Troglodyte, an Ethiopian tongue that - if Herodotus can be believed - was unlike that of any other people; it sounds like the screeching of bats.

Stacy Schiff

#8. You'd have been scared too if that big troglodyte had put his hands on you. He smelled like dirty socks and store brand cola. Chet Andrews

Aaron Crabill

#9. There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Michael Eisner

#10. I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

Joanne Kelly

#11. A coward can be a hero, but a hero cannot be a coward.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population ... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

David Foreman

#13. Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

Harriet Martineau

#14. Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

Idris Elba

#15. Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.

Josh McDowell

#16. Come what may and love it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#17. There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

Bill Johnson

#18. I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

Dan Chaon