Curmudgeon Quote by Bill Keller Download Open image “I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.” — Bill Keller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curmudgeon Good Good way Internet Joke Jokes Make Way
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“Caution is often a virtue, but in your case you carry it too far. It's a little flaw in your character and it shows in a multitude of ways. In your wary approach to problems in your work for instance, you are always too apprehensive, proceeding fearfully step by step when you should be plunging boldly ahead. You keep seeing… — James Herriot Copy Share
It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
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One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
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I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but… — Max Brooks Copy Share
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
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My generation didn't face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That's why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn't know if we could live up to his standards. But… — Bill Maher Copy Share
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image