Quotes About Cantankerous

In the Iron Range, an area noted for its independent, unpredictable, and generally cantankerous population

I'm cranky.

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.

He was increasingly irritable and suspicious, and a cantankerous mood could fly over him as quickly as the shadow of a bird. But Jesse was neither close-mouthed nor sulky for long, and over the weeks that he and Charley were on the road, he unscrolled yarns and anecdotes that excited interest in Charley only insofar as they permitted him a corresponding reminiscence.

John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament generally.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

The Malazan engineers are a unique breed. Cantankerous, foul-mouthed, derisive of authority, secretive and thick-headed. They are the heartstone of the Malazan Army… THE IMPERIAL MILITARY SENJALLE

Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

Sometimes I found it was better if I turned up and appeared pissed off without anybody knowing why. I'd get more out of them. It made them go, wow, he's weird; he's gone a bit eccentric or cantankerous.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.

This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

A lot of the Qur'an is, frankly, cantankerous, vitriolic, man-hating stuff.

I turn complaining into music! I'm thinking I might have invented a new style. I call it 'cantankerous rock.'