Disappointingly Quotes

#1. My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. It was, come to think of it, the first time anyone had thought to try strangling him. Manuel found it to be disappointingly effective.

Nathan Crowder

#3. In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

Lance Loud

#4. Anna seems warmer every time I meet her, thinks Lou. Funny, that. Some people, who seem friendly on first impression, turn out to be disappointingly superficial, whereas the aloof ones, like Anna, emerge as affectionate and loyal.

Sarah Rayner

#5. The compasses are disappointingly true, pointing north over and over, when all he wants is for one to dissent, to demur, to show him the new direction he cannot find on his own.

Matt Bell

#6. 'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

Ruth Rendell

#7. Swallowing, she studied his lips, then kissed them - warm, ever so soft, disappointingly unresponsive.
"I want to kiss you. Only you, husband. Will you ever let me in?" she whispered.

Amy Jarecki

#8. Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Terror is so delicious," she remarked. "You're disappointingly predictable, Harmonia. All these years and you would still risk everything for him. Tsk, tsk.

Courtney Cole

#10. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Philosophers have pondered that question for centuries. I'm afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That's it.

Oliver Markus

#11. On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#12. For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

#13. Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

John Updike

#14. In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Jerry Hunt

#15. I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

David S.Goyer

#16. You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

Gil Scott-Heron

#17. It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.

Stephen Richards

#18. The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

Annie Besant

#19. The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

Marianne Williamson

#20. I think my career will be remembered for what it was and what it is, and I don't need more than that.

Jim Abbott

#21. I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

Piper Perabo

#22. I'm so NUMB. I just don't care, it seems-but I must do. This is all going to sound totally incoherent. I'm that bunged up, but totally empty. I think my worries about who I am have reached a head.
I mean who is Rae Earl?
I think I know myself, but then other people say things.

Rae Earl

#23. We are all created in the image of our Creator - Love itself.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#24. With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

Sarah Susanka

#25. Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?

Darren Shan

#26. A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.

Arthur Herman