Disappointing Quotes

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

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

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

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.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

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.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.