Quotes About Disappointment

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

One thing that has irritated me in the sport of boxing since I stopped is I'm really surprised that no one has come along to excite me like me.

They offer me item numbers, Bhabhi roles and all that. When they offer me the role of the main lead, that particular film ends up not being made. I don't know what they want.

I don't think I can get Jack Nicholson to come out and watch me fight.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.

I did a record with Janet Jackson, and it went to the top of the charts, and we had all of these complications, and she couldn't be in the video and couldn't do anything for the record. I went through something similar with Pitbull. I think it works really well for a lot of other artists, but for me, it just doesn't work that well.

Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

I joined Sunderland, a great club, to be successful, to feel at home again. It hasn't worked out, but that's not through lack of effort.

When I joined the film industry I looked forward to different roles, unfortunately that did not materialise.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

The result is often disappointing, but the process is highly exciting.

Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

BORN UNDER A THREEPENNY HALFPENNY PLANET, NEVER TO BE WORTH A GROAT. Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. BOTCH.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.