Top 100 Disappointing Quotes
#1. It can't be any worse than whatever it is Annarion's doing."
"You are devoid of an active imagination, which is disappointing considering the experience you have now amassed.
Michelle Sagara
#2. I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'
Sandra Bullock
#3. Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.
Janet Evanovich
#4. They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
Louise Jameson
#5. Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing.
Christopher Kimball
#6. You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.
Miranda Hart
#7. This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.
Alice Munro
#8. Heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business ... Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.
Michael Martin Hammer
#9. When you don't act right to your family and friends, that's bad, but they also have the opportunity to experience the 'good' side as well. Disappointing the fans is an entirely different thing because the fans love your music and save up money to see you in concert.
George Jones
#10. There was always something disappointing about clouds when you were inside them; they ceased to be clouds at all. It just got really foggy.
David Foster Wallace
#11. It was heartbreaking ... I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?
Eva Longoria
#12. It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president - has caused the largest deficits and the largest debt in American history.
Raul Labrador
#13. She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.
Ai Yazawa
#14. Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee?
Tom Douglas
#15. 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
#16. It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it ...
Tim Henman
#17. When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore ... it's disappointing.
Will Arnett
#18. It saddened him, of course, that his sex life and his home life should have to be two distinct realms, but he was old enough now to know that within every relationship was something unfulfilled and disappointing, something that had to be sought elsewhere.
Hanya Yanagihara
#19. I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
Ang Lee
#20. The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.
Tim Tebow
#21. 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
#22. Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.
Kevin Nealon
#23. Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.
Helen Fielding
#24. Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.
Gene Cernan
#25. I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.
James Frey
#26. 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
#27. I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.
Yasmina Khadra
#28. it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.
Charles Dickens
#29. There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.
Marlon James
#30. It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
Richard Linklater
#31. While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.
Seth Shostak
#32. If you and I are to appropriate God's grace in our times of need, we must see His sovereignty ultimately ruling in all the circumstances of our lives. And when those circumstances are difficult, disappointing, or humiliating, we must humble ourselves under His mighty hand.
Jerry Bridges
#33. I don't like disappointing people. Some would say that this is "codependent behavior", which I have discovered is a term that explains how most everyone acts all the time, unless one is a sociopath or a Russian computer that plays chess.
Amy Poehler
#34. When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.
Reba McEntire
#35. After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.
Colin Mochrie
#36. Money almost always ends up disappointing.
Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.
Lisa Bedrick
#37. The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.
John Malkovich
#38. You slept with Curran and you didn't tell me? I'm your best friend."
"It didn't come up."
"How disappointing for you."
Ha-ha. "That's not what I meant.
Ilona Andrews
#39. It seemed jobs kept disappointing him, as did business partners and girlfriends and entire geographical regions.
Anne Tyler
#40. That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
Alan Green
#41. 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.
David Douglass
#42. The truth is so often disappointing, or ugly; don't you find that, ma petite?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#43. 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
#44. If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?
Paul Darrow
#45. Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If
Michael Marshall Smith
#46. I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.
Cate Blanchett
#47. Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story
Hilary Duff
#48. T was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
Charles Bukowski
#49. 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
#50. Their imperfect record at awards shows was disappointing, sure, but the best prize of all came when, on February 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan name-checked and quoted directly from the movie - where we're going, we don't need roads - in his State of the Union address.
Caseen Gaines
#51. '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
#52. It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
Patrick Kane
#53. Sitting out on your own life is the best way to make sure the rest of it's disappointing.
Edward W. Robertson
#54. It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
Jodi Picoult
#55. I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.
Andy Murray
#56. The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
John Podhoretz
#57. Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
Margaret Heffernan
#58. There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
Cyril Connolly
#59. I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.
Alanis Morissette
#61. So you're saying that after I take a disappointing shower I should get in bed and lay there and weep?
Mike Rowe
#62. (Later, Giddle's response when I told her I was in love: "Oh God, I'm so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it's so disappointing. But good luck with that.")
Rachel Kushner
#63. Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.
Nick Hornby
#64. I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.
Phil Hartman
#65. Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.
Karen Hughes
#66. Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen."
I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
Neal Shusterman
#67. Once you learn the idea of what a good guy is, you want your dad to be a good guy, and when your dad lets you down and doesn't act like a good guy, it's disappointing and can make you angry as you see it happen, which is beautiful and very believable.
Viggo Mortensen
#68. Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
Madeleine Peyroux
#69. The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.
Anne Rice
#70. I suppose a good recipe for life would be to allow nothing into it, knowingly at least, which is bitter.
It's disappointing we aren't able to simply spit people out that don't taste well.
Scott Hildreth
#71. confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words." "It was a very disappointing
Oscar Wilde
#72. 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 disappointing that I can't perform for my American fans ... all because I'm not 'family friendly' enough.
Johnny Weir
#73. I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.
Neko Case
#74. You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
Tobias Wolff
#75. Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.
Ken Kesey
#76. Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.
Frigyes Karinthy
#77. Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most of the time, darkness, disappointment, and disillusionment are the illusion.
Truth is neutral. Our decisions determine what darkens and what lightens our lives.
Orson Scott Card
#78. What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.
Matt Taibbi
#79. Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.
Josh Klinghoffer
#80. We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.
Rick Allen
#81. Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.
Hilary Mantel
#82. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..
Alma Alexander
#83. I was actually really happy with where my game was at. That's probably the most disappointing aspect.
Lleyton Hewitt
#84. Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
Garrison Keillor
#85. Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots.
Emma Cline
#86. Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.
Kyle E. McSlarrow
#87. Its just as disappointing as it was thrilling to win the Masters. To come very close, to play so hard for 72 holes and play better than everybody but one guy is disappointing.
Phil Mickelson
#88. In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.
Jack Keane
#89. It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.
David Letterman
#90. My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Anthony Horowitz
#91. I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#92. You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.
Jamie McKelvie
#93. Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#94. It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.
Rudolph Straeuli
#95. Her lips pursed. My palms went damp. Her fangs were out, as pointed and delicate as little bone daggers. "That's disappointing, Solange."
I was going to die because I couldn't embroider roses on a pillow.
Alyxandra Harvey
#96. Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.
Joe Klein
#97. Well, I'm not advocating it," I said. "I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.
John Boyne
#98. She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans. Poor Sasha. She
Emma Cline
#99. Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always
high, and the results usually disappointing.
Robert Orben
#100. I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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