Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.