Chris Cooper

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

American Actor

Simone Giertz

Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you're like, I am never going to feel the same and I have this new perspective on life. So much gratitude, life just feels like this enormous treasure. Then that kind of just falls away and you're back being grumpy about having an early morning meeting.

Swedish Inventor

Jennifer Konner

What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she's probably written the dialogue. It's 2 in the morning. Everyone's tired. Everyone's grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her.

American Director

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

American Actress

Ann Widdecombe

My father was in the admiralty and he rose to a very senior position. He was very formidable; a bit grumpy, but I loved him dearly.

British Politician

Jack Dee

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

British Comedian

Life gives back what you give out. If you go around grumpy and drunk, then that is what life throws back at you.

English Dancer

Jon Katz

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

American Journalist

Dawn French

Ian Mckellen

English Actor

Grumpy suggests a temporary mood, not a permanent trait, often due to specific reasons.

Negative Emotion

Grumpy can imply a less serious, more tolerable level of annoyance than outright anger.

Not Serious

The term 'grumpy' is informal, so use it in casual conversations rather than formal contexts.

Informal Usage

 teaches them to think on their feet just do that kind of stuff and have fun with get kids to stand up in front of groups and talk even if it's just stand up in front of the friends and do plays and have speeches those are entrepreneurial traits that you want to be nurturing show the kids what bad customers or bad employees look like show them the grumpy

Let's raise kids to be...

 but they will be the most powerful nation in an increasingly multi-polar world. And you begin to see the alternative centers of power building up -- in China, of course, though my own guess is that China's ascent to greatness is not smooth. It's going to be quite grumpy as China begins to democratize her society after liberalizing her economy.

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 line up with reality, but it doesn't mean that one of us is right and one of us is wrong. We all see the world through our mind's eye, but we can teach ourselves to see it differently. So I can think of days that have gone horribly wrong for me. I'm fed up, I'm grumpy, I'm tired,

Why some people find...

 the grumpiest person I have ever met. And he put a lie to the notion that you have to be positive to live a long life. And there is evidence for this. When I asked him why he lived so long, he kind of looked at me under hooded eyelids and he growled,

The secret to living...

 to help people deal with the stress response cycle. But just taking the example of a you get out of your car or you get off the bus, and your shoulders are trying to be your earrings, and you're grumpy and cranky

Emily Nagoski and Amelia...

 now in what I believe is my last stage of life I'm able to say I'm happy better you know this is what I've been given because every day count may be grumpy I may be tired and so on but I'm alive you

This Man’s Words Will...

 with a grunt that is baboon for I come in peace what said the scientists it got them thinking about social relationships differently and asking what would push a grumpy baboon to seek them out

The science of...

 only one hunting three by a palace's cat is successful no wonder he has the reputation of being the grumpiest cat in the world

World’s Grumpiest Cat I...

 the same deep frequency as the alligators bellow at. So, let's see if they can entice a grumpy alligator to start flirting.

Alligators Showing Off...

 hertz the same deep frequency as the alligators bellow so let's see if they can entice a grumpy

Grumpy

Negative Emotion

Not Serious

Informal Usage

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