Carrie Brownstein Quotes

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not... I was a really cynical child.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

I have a big cynical side to me.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

I'm not Pollyanna.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

Cynicism is for lightweights.

It's easy to be negative.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking