Griping Quotes

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime. (Tom Shales)
Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please; protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. It's time - for me, at least - to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
When griping grief the heart doth wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress, Then music with her silver sound. View quote
William Shakespeare
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me. View quote
Al Yankovic
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. View quote
Kevin Spacey
North Koreans can frequent black markets and still consider themselves good citizens, as was impossible in the communist East Bloc. So the situation now is more like Japan or Germany in 1944, say, than like East Germany in the 1980s. Widespread government corruption? Check. An entire population of economic criminals? Check. Constant griping about the state, the party, even some joking about the leader? Check. Even good Nazis had their Hitler jokes. A general readiness to fight for the state? Well, there's certainly more readiness in the North than in the South. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers