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Quotes About Unsatisfying

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.
~ Jennifer Egan
If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you of stale, soggy rice cakes: nearly calorie free, devoid of nutrition, and completely unsatisfying.
~ Jason Fried
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
~ Jim Broadbent
It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.
~ Paul Di Filippo, Fuzzy Dice
Revenge. I swear, is there a more pointless, destructive, unsatisfying motive in all the world?
~ Joe Abercrombie
So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an opportunity to really script your ending, which can leave it an unsatisfying situation for both participants and the audience.
~ Noah Wyle
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.
~ Mike Birbiglia
It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government.
~ Sigmund Freud
Successful leaders need more than good intentions; they need to transform hopes and plans into results. Noble failure may be poetic but it is also unsatisfying.
~ John Shaw
Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.
~ Jeffrey Wright
I believe it is dangerous for the ethic of divinity to supersede the ethic of autonomy in the governance of a diverse modern democracy. However, I also believe that life in a society that entirely ignored the ethic of divinity would be ugly and unsatisfying.
~ Jonathan Haidt
It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those "impossible" professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing-up of children and the government of nations.
~ Sigmund Freud
We could easily have been abject strangers with no history of brief unsatisfying cinematic sex between us.
~ T.R. Pearson
With his power over time, Dor could have taken anything he desired from this new world. But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.
~ Mitch Albom
She feared that she'd missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in her head the small memories her mind would offer as tantalizing, but—in the end unsatisfying, glimpses of what may have occurred.
~ Chris Bohjalian
The truth of the matter is that our goals are generally very small and unsatisfying compared to the awesome, eternal plans the Father desires to accomplish through us.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Yeah, that's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life's a little unsatisfying.
~ Woody Allen
So, the postindustrial economy opened a new chasm between those with good jobs in services, which were stable, high paying, and rewarding, and those with bad jobs, which were fleeting, low paying, and unsatisfying
~ Unknown
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
~ John Irving
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes—toward an infinity of unsatisfying and disagreeable endings. The wholly anticlimactic, unsatisfying, and disagreeable news that the Rev. Lewis Merrill was my father—not to mention the death of Owen Meany—is just one example of the condition of universal disappointment
~ John Irving
It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.
~ Paul Di Filippo