Disappointing Quotes

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

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.

To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.