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Quotes About Disappointment

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.
~ Anne Lamott
God! I hate clever women!" She froze for an instant before the reply was on her lips. "I love clever men!" Her eyes raked him up and down. "It seems we are both to be disappointed.
~ Anne Perry
Do you like me?" No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
~ Anne Sexton
It was a shame about him...really...
~ Anne Taintor
Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.
~ Anne Ylvisaker
This book will bring little joy to the reader.
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Qué hacer de esta verdad: que soy nula, que no doy la talla en la vía en la que me he iniciado
~ Annie Ernaux
Soir, 8 h 45. C'est très dur, bien plus, je crois, que pour P., il y a quatre ans, l'été. Il est clair que s'il ne m'appelle pas ce soir (alors qu'il devait m'appeler hier), c'est fini.
~ Annie Ernaux
The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday.
~ Anon
I don't get the fuss about President's Day. I spend my whole life not living up to promises and nobody's giving me a holiday.
~ Anonymous
The absolute low point for me in more than 30 years of professional life was the Brexit vote.
~ Frans Timmermans
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.
~ Charles Soule
I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.
~ Kevin Reilly
I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.
~ Robert Crippen
M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
~ Laraine Day
Once, I got a chance to meet filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar. He wanted me to give music for his film but the project never got off.
~ Ankit Tiwari
I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'
~ Adam Schlesinger
I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.
~ Bokeem Woodbine
I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
~ Samm Levine
I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.
~ Rob Huebel
In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
~ Matthew Perry
I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!
~ Crystal Reed
I think in my time in AEW, I haven't been put in a very prominent position.
~ Shawn Spears