Complaint Quotes

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{on the complaint that his films were emotionally cold] I ought not to be regarded as a once happy man who has been bitten in the jugular and compelled to assume the misanthropy of a vampire.

- Stanley Kubrick

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

- Doris Day

`To the complaint, `There are no people in these photographs,` I respond, `There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.`

- Ansel Adams

Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I`ve had to work harder for what I`ve gotten. I`ve seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who`ve had it easy, whereas I felt that I had to `overprove` myself. No one ever went out of their way and said, `Let`s make Jimmy Woods a star.` With many frustrations and disappointments early in my career, I went into a deep depression. One time, I just sat in a chair for eighteen days. I worked my way out of that depressed state, but it took three years of therapy.

- James Woods

I`m happy when I`m juggling, but I feel like I`ve gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that`s a good problem. I don`t really have a complaint about that.

- Kirstie Alley

Countering the complaint that the juiciest roles go to younger actors: "They (the roles) may not be financially enriching, but personally enriching? Yes. You are no longer under pressure. You don`t have to prove yourself on some levels, but you do have to (creatively) push yourself."

- Robin Williams

(High school) "My biggest complaint is school when it`s Send-the-roses day, somebody`s always left out. I always got roses, but I would give them to someone who hadn`t gotten any."

- Sarah Michelle Gellar

I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals have seen fit to come forward and make a complaint that is completely false. Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court. These people wanted to exploit my concern for children by threatening to destroy what I believe in and what I do. I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

- Michael Jackson

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

- Phyllis Schlafly

(on killing off the lead characters in The Devil`s Rejects (2005)) "That was always the ending and every actor had a complaint about that. I wanted to do it because it seems like nobody makes a movie anymore without a sequel set up. Lions Gate was like `The franchise... It`s gone.` But you know, that`s the problem. I feel like there`s never a definitive ending anymore. Every movie ends with the possibility of another one and it drives me crazy. I feel like, `Why did I just invest two hours? It didn`t even end.`"

- Rob Zombie

We`ve gotten to the point where it has gotten to the consistency, not just one complaint.

- Richard Kelly

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

- Wim Wenders

Mrs Woolf`s complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

- Cecil Beaton

I think our department is a good one. I`m very proud of our police officers, ... Certainly when a complaint of misconduct or inappropriate behavior surfaces, it`s disturbing. We want to do everything we can to address it, learn from it and make sure it doesn`t reoccur.

- Michael Spears

The subcommittee jettisoned the ethnicity complaint. They said it`s irrelevant to his scholarship.

- David Lane

This complaint is brought by Don Ide, someone who was never available to give care, comfort or necessary help to Henry and Marion Ide during approximately 10 years of failing health, ... He would visit one to two times a year and now he comes looking for money. What a surprise.

- William Stevenson

We have received the complaint from the commissioner,

- Michael Brooks

repeatedly lied in his answer to the complaint, his responses to interrogatories and his responses for admissions. He did so personally, by and through his attorneys on several occasions.

- Robert Bailey

The defendant, Frank Melton, repeatedly lied in his answer to the complaint, his responses to interrogatories and his responses for admissions. He did so personally, by and through his attorneys on several occasions,

- Robert Bailey

You`re right. It`s not complete yet. No witnesses ever called us or came forward. Gilyard never called us. We can`t force him to talk to us. He never filed a complaint.

- Steve Emerson

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.

- Fritz Kreisler

Because of that, it didn`t fit well for John. He complained, and that complaint went to two different people.

- Michael Ross

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

- Adam J. Smith

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

- Abner Kurtin

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- Addison Mizner

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

- Ahmad Shah Massood

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

- Aislinn Ryan

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

- Allan Schweyer

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

- Andre Bauer

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps` use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

- Andre Heard

The usual complaint is, `I have no other way of earning a living.` The harsh reply can be, `Do you have to live?`

- Andrew Baum

It has come to my attention that there was a complaint filed at the Gogebic County Sheriff`s Department concerning a CMH-operated group home. The Mental Health Code and Community Mental Health Authority`s policy and procedures establish very strict requirements for the review and thorough investigation and resolution of allegations of this nature.

- Angela Missoni

From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence,

- Anna Cummin

In law, in general, there is an obligation and duty to maintain and preserve evidence if you have reason to know that litigation could ensue. That doesn`t mean you have to wait to the day the complaint comes across the threshold.

- Archie Berry

I wish we had the staff for annual inspections. The (latest UI power plant) inspection was precipitated by a complaint from an employee there.

- Asma Jehangir

I wish we had the staff for annual inspections, ... The (latest UI power plant) inspection was precipitated by a complaint from an employee there.

- Asma Jehangir

She would pull double shifts when we were short staffed. She took care of her patients. Never got a complaint on her. Never. Tommy was motivated. Anything he was needed to be done, he got it done.

- Avraham Burg

We were asked last night (Tuesday) if we could disclose what was done on every particular complaint,

- Bahadir Ozdener

Everyone wants to go home but we can`t because of the expiration, ... Everyone is reading the paper. The biggest complaint on the floor is about food because all the delis are closed.

- Barbara Anglin

Generally, you need a physical address to make a complaint, ... If it`s a Web site, you can get information from the site-registration people, but it may just be a front for someone else.

- Barbara Lamphere

president`s allies will send our complaint to the graveyard at the latest on Wednesday unless we are able to come up with the magic 79 signatures to transmit it to the Senate for trial.

- Barbara Pletcher

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception

- Mark Twain

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

- Robert Frost

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

- Henry David Thoreau

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

- Anna Freud