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Quotes About Disappointing

Fast Food Rule. Wanna know what the summer's blockbuster is going to be? See who McDonald's does the marketing tie-in with. Wanna know what blockbuster will do disappointing business? See who Burger King ties in with.
~ Roger Ebert
Those regularly-featured Hollywood males made her feel slightly nauseous; and the same could be said for their female equivalents, hardly intellectuals they. These people had regular features but were actually ugly because they tended to be so completely vacuous. Regularity without some metaphysical value behind it, some beauty of soul or character, was more disappointing – and indeed repulsive – than the honestly haphazard, the humanly messy.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Regularity without some metaphysical value behind it, some beauty of soul or character, was more disappointing – and indeed repulsive – than the honestly haphazard, the humanly messy.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I suppose that is what we have to have to get grace. Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace, Oh Lord. Help me with this life that seems so treacherous, so disappointing.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Being a family man has been the most rewarding and the most disappointing thing I have done in my life.
~ John Bishop
It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
~ Barry Switzer
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
Referees will make good decisions and bad ones. But when they make decisions actually affecting a game of football, it's disappointing.
~ Tony Pulis
It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.
~ Clive Anderson
It's didn't take a genis tactician to see that failure was imminent, Alyss more powerful that Arch had supposed. He would have to focus on his contingency plan and let the Glass Eyes attack on Wonderland fizzle out--a circunstance mildly disapointing, but not worrisome. Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingency plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circunstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.
~ Frank Beddor
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
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
~ Susanna Clarke
Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.
~ James Fenton
Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves.
~ Anne Lamott
Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.
~ Chris Hadfield
The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.
~ Stephanie Cutter
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
~ Sandra Bernhard
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
'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.
~ Ruth Rendell
The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
~ K. Flay
Inter's infrastructure is a shame, to be honest. That such a prestigious club does not find a way to invest in its infrastructure is disappointing.
~ Xherdan Shaqiri
What I saw is Australia is very much an 'old boys' club. A lot of the ex-players carry a huge amount of weight and what they say, a lot goes, and that was the disappointing thing.
~ Mickey Arthur
There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.
~ Daniel Tammet
I want to request Modiji that you cannot accomplish nation-building by disappointing the government employees.
~ Arvind Kejriwal