Cranky Quotes

• Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

  Carlos Santana

  Funny, Smile, Wrinkles

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• There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!

  Peter Jennings

  Funny, Mean, Good Day

  "Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War". Book by Howard Kurtz, 2007.

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• 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

  Funny, Enough, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2013

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• 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

  Independent, Joy, Path

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• I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

  Andy Griffith

  Wise, I Can

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• 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

  Girl, Mother, Dog

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• Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

  Willa Cather

  Father, Home, Men

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.159, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Beautiful, Old Buildings

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• "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

  Tom Shales

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• 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

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Excruciating agony makes me cranky.

  Brandon Mull

  Agony

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• 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

  Real, Mean, Hard Times

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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

  Nice, Chicago, Nasty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Akri done left his Simi on his arm for far too long. She done got tired and cranky. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tired, Long, Done

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.610, Macmillan

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, Gold

  "Paul Krugman on Why David Stockman Is a Crank". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. June 6, 2013.

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• 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

  Funny, Nice, Book

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• 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

  Character, Suffering, Actors

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• 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

  Believe, People, Forever

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• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Next

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• 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

  Musical, Doe, Strings

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• 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

  Lunch, Breakfast, Bigs

  "Mindy Kaling's Real-Life Dating Adventures, The Mindy Project, and SO Much More". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 15, 2013.

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• 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

  People, Enjoy Life, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He's like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled "poor." He doesn't have any bad habits. He's never cranky with his kids.

  George Saunders

  Sweet, Kids, Ivy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Want, Eccentric, Bits

  " Father of 'the God particle' Peter Higgs says fame is a bit of a nuisance" by Peter Higgs, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2014.

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