Disappointing Quotes - Page 6

• Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Men, Here I Am

  "The moon walkers: Twelve men who have visited another world" by Christopher Riley, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Men

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.212, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

  Shirley Manson

  Artist, Voice, Support

  4 Copy quote

• I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

  Rita Ora

  People, Scared, Failing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

  George Santayana

  War, Passion, Ambition

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.272, Рипол Классик

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.

  Ricky Ponting

  Years, Calendars, Lasts

  7 Copy quote

• Vengeance is disappointing, always.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Patience, Responsibility

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.163, Paradise Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

  James Berardinelli

  Should Have, Office, Guy

  "Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

  Van Jones

  Military, Party, Dirty

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Successful, Feelings, Want

  "All rage and heart" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Records, Bob, Dylan

  4 Copy quote

• Don't panic, but we've got an audience." Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Passion, Eye, Wings

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'The Social Network' was probably one of the two or three things I've done in my life that I'm most proud of. I'm not going to engage in what about it was disappointing. There's nothing about it I was disappointed in.

  Scott Rudin

  Two, Three Things, Done

  "OSCARS: Producer Scott Rudin Talks Critics Awards, Salander, His 'Jeopardy' Discovery And Why A Non-Baseball Fan Relates To 'Moneyball'". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. January 12, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

  Reince Priebus

  Team, Successful, Careers

  4 Copy quote

• I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

  Terry Gross

  Reality, Risk, Needs

  7 Copy quote

• The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

  Mark Rosenker

  Hopeful, Increase, Decrease

  4 Copy quote

• Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

  Gene Weingarten

  Inspiration, Creativity, Eye

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.

  T. D. Jakes

  Art, Acceptance, Goal

  1307 Copy quote

• On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Election, Yeah

  7 Copy quote

• Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

  Kevin Bacon

  People, Pay, Bills

  19 Copy quote

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  Sam Shepard

  Dad, Suffering, Luck

  8 Copy quote

• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

  23 Copy quote

• Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Writing, Reality, Useless

  Michel Houellebecq (2005). “H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life”, McSweeney's

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.

  Joe Meno

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

  4 Copy quote

• I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Self, Mind

  5 Copy quote