Quotes About Glum

Too slow, the wagons of years, The oxen of days--too glum. Our god is the god of speed, Our heart--our battle-drum.

Phyllis Kaberry's description of an aborigine camp in western Australia is typical: "The Aborigines continually craved for meat, and any man was apt to declare, 'me hungry alonga bingy,' though he had had a good meal of yams and damper a few minutes before. The camp on such occasions became glum, lethargic, and unenthusiastic about dancing.

The dog wagged his tail, happy, it seemed, to find it still worked properly. He was not frightened, or glum. He had tortured a stupid cat, twice, and torn up not one fence, but two; it might have been one of the greatest days of his life, and the week hadn't even gotten started good.

The things one learns on a honeymoon. Now I know how to coax you out of your glum moods. Just hire someone to shoot at you." "Peps me right up," he agreed. "I figured out years ago that I was addicted to adrenaline. I also figured out that it was going to be toxic, eventually, if I didn't taper off." "Indeed." She inhaled.

It was beginning to feel as if I knew more people residing in cemeteries than in houses these days, and I left feeling a little glum myself.

If there's a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for dejection? And if there is no help for it, What use is there in being glum?

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.

That was another of my mom's words: glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.

It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, glum and thinly settled, so it has an oasis or frontier atmosphere and a sense that the cappuccinos are a bit hard-won.

One fox in the henhouse. In two days, he'll try to eat his mouse. Two days have passed. Today is the day. Anytime now. Three, yes, three warnings will come. By four five six, you'll be glum. Look, look, look, for the seven. Eight, nine, Ten is in heaven...

So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

if you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-arts catalogues for machines that are never built," he explained. "I am as good a diagnostician of ecosystems as any doctor is of human beings, and I'm not on any damn ego trip when I say that. Sometimes I wish I did't have the knowledge hat I do, because I can get pretty damn glum.