Crotchety Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking. — Grace Slick

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together. — Vincent Nichols

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. — Henri Frederic Amiel

My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out — Mikhail Lermontov

I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up call for our country, and we have a great opportunity now to reinvent ourselves. To rethink our position about oil and energy, to rethink our relationship with other cultures and other countries, and why other people want to attack us." — Paul Auster

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward. — Charles Edison

Misery is okay; laughter is a disturbance. — Osho

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

This unique and deep meaning of power laws perhaps explains our excitement when we first spotted them on the Web. It wasn't only that they were unprecedented and unexpected in the context of networks. It was that they lifted complex networks out of the jungle of randomness where Erdos and Renyi had placed them forty years earlier and dropped them into the center of the colorful and conceptually rich arena of self-organization. Gazing at the power laws that our little search engine carried home from its journey, we caught a glimpse of a new and unsuspected order within networks, one that displayed an uncommon beauty and coherence. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Neck touching takes place when there is emotional discomfort, doubt, or insecurity. — Joe Navarro

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world. — Michael Dirda

Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right — Joe Budden