Quotes About Letdown

#1. That's the big letdown you'll notice about filming a movie: No underline music. No mood music.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. it was better to be a quiet surprise than a loud letdown.

Tracy Ewens

#3. When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Charlie Chaplin

#4. It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

Kingsley Amis

#5. THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

Jonathan Franzen

#6. Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

John Irving

#7. You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

Michael B. Jordan

#8. The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

Alessandro Nivola

#9. A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Taylor Swift

#10. It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

Demetri Martin

#11. The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

Tim Chester

#12. It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much a letdown. Everyone would be looking ahead to college and getting sick of seeing the same faces we've been looking at for the last three years.

Jenny O'Connell

#13. Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

Oscar De La Renta

#14. Sometimes I talk to people. A lot of the time, though, it's just a letdown. There aren't many people out there worth knowing.

Haruki Murakami

#15. I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

Aya Cash

#16. Julian: "Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks."
Emma: "You think that's what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?"
Julian: "I admit it seems like a letdown.

Cassandra Clare

#17. The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

Susan Sontag

#18. I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.

Mike Tomlin

#19. It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

Jon Foreman

#20. The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

John Knowles

#21. That's the only problem with novels,' Mia said. 'They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a bit of a letdown.

Victoria Connelly

#22. This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

Paul Feig

#24. This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

David Cone

#25. I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.

Ryan Hall

#27. It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

Rob Bell

#28. You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."
"That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

Cassandra Clare

#29. These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

Scott Adams

#30. Memories did that to you. They glorified the past until the real thing was often a letdown, making you wonder why you had craved it so assiduously in the first place.

Melanie Milburne

#31. There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

Craig Venter

#32. Disappointment is a natural part of the schedule if you plan on winning.

Johnnie Dent Jr.