Quotes About Disappointment

I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have no right to be.

If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have not right to be.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.