Disgruntled Quotes

#1. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

George Carlin

#2. [Springsteen] sort of catarrh-mumbles his ditties in a disgruntled mushmouth like Robbie Robertson on Quaaludes with Dylan barfing down the back of his neck.

Lester Bangs

#3. Baffled and disgruntled, I fill my Woolworths trolley with dead turkey and lamb, and wonder when Love was lost, among the Christmas crowd.

Judy Croome

#4. When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#5. He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.

Peter Straub

#6. I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

Anne Lamott

#7. I'm a mad scientist, aren't I? We all have master plans. Without them, we'd just be fairly disgruntled scientists who think we really ought to form a committee to discuss our grievances.

Mira Grant

#8. Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

Mason Cooley

#9. It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours.

Jason Fried

#10. How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

Fiona Shaw

#12. By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System ... while the banking system was partially centralized under their leadership, it was not centralized enough.

Murray Rothbard

#13. For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.

Charles Duhigg

#14. A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

Dambisa Moyo

#15. If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

Robert Caro

#16. She found Emery and Mg. Aviosky talking to two disgruntled police officers. Or rather, Mg. Aviosky stood by silently while Emery yelled at them.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#17. Where do you get bitter cherries?" Deuce asked.
"Disgruntled trees.

Abigail Roux

#18. And while in the olden days, disgruntled readers suffered pretty much in silence, now there's Amazon. The last thing you want are myriad scathing reviews that potential readers find helpful.

Lisa Cron

#19. Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Kevin Nealon

#20. Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

Brian Celio

#21. A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#22. The invention of mummification. This was believed to be the key to a happy afterlife; certainly there were no disgruntled customers coming back to say otherwise.

Leonard Mlodinow

#23. My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

Lisa Tuttle

#24. It came down to so many factors: an underdog who refused to surrender, a presumed victor who refused to fight, disgruntled Democrats - on the left and right - who, by deserting their party, merely strengthened it, and fearful Republican farmers, who in the end, proved more farmer than Republican.

David Pietrusza

#25. One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America
and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.

Michael Moore

#26. I'm not one of those actresses that's going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I've had so much fun.

Ming-Na Wen

#27. Note to self: jogging on trails with disgruntled dogs and duck hunters will make you run faster.

Krystyna Faroe

#28. Our system requires a continuous supply of highly capable people who are so disgruntled with their jobs that they are willing to chew off their own arms to escape their bosses.

Scott Adams

#29. Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Jonny Lang

#30. I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

John Ridley

#31. Don't be (dis.grun.tled), disgruntled that someone else is more successful than you are. Let their success motivate you to become successful.

Jon Jones

#32. Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

Robert M. Hayes

#33. Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

Mason Cooley

#34. I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

P.G. Wodehouse

#35. I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

Fiona Shaw

#36. Baiting her was great fun. And he didn't feel the least bit guilty for it. For all her disgruntled behavior, he had no doubt that she enjoyed the verbal sparring every bit as much as he did.

Julia Quinn

#37. Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits, wounded affection, bitterness, marginality, disdain of establishment - I knew we should get on famously.

Michelle Franklin

#38. There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Paul Watson

#39. The disgruntled are abundant among those who are idle, and to be idle is a matter of choice.

Dee Hock

#40. Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

Srikumar Rao

#41. So many girls out there say, "I'm not a feminist" because they think it means something angry or disgruntled or complaining or they picture, like, rioting and picketing. It is not that at all. It just simply means that you believe that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities.

Taylor Swift

#42. It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a built-in fascination, but with that comes people ready to feel disgruntled that it's being remade at all.

David Tennant

#43. I'm a disgruntled ex-civil servant, and I'm armed. If you don't process my license right now I'm going to start making small, yet significant holes in people.

Howard Tayler

#44. There was also an alarming assortment of junk food, including ready-made cheesecake filling in a tub, which I didn't even know existed. And now that I was aware of it, I was extremely disgruntled that I couldn't eat any of it.

Molly Harper