Disappointing Quotes · Page 4

There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

— John Ortberg

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

— Kathy Bates

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

— Biz Stone

“Well that’s disappointing,” Grandma Mazur said. “I expected something better from her.”

— Janet Evanovich

“She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered.”

— Ken Bruen

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

— Eric Jerome Dickey

...if someone is disappointing you it only means you are due for an appointment elsewhere...

— Liya

Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's…

— Karen Hughes

I've never been invited to do 'Stars on Ice' before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it's…

— Johnny Weir

Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next…

— Tom Douglas

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of…

— Marilyn Monroe

Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving…

— Neal Shusterman

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you…

— Joni Mitchell

Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just…

— Robert Englund

It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing.…

— Michael Chabon

In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants…

— Claudia Rankine

The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican…

— Stephanie Cutter

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.…

— Van Morrison

For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it…

— Geoff Dyer

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the…

— Alan Rickman

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid…

— Bill Plympton

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

— Garrison Keillor

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

— Fred Reinfeld

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

— Steve Coogan

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you...

— Emily Giffin

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

— Betty Rollin

People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing…

— Lee Unkrich

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

— Joshuah Bearman

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

— Brené Brown

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

— David Letterman

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

— Janine di Giovanni

I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

— Sarah Dessen

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

— Alberto Giacometti

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

— Reba McEntire

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

— Alexis Taylor

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

— Eric Mangini

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

— Anne Lamott