Joshua Ferris Quotes

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every expectation is the beginning of frustration. Why does every desire end in frustration? There are only two alternatives: either you achieve your object of desire or you don't achieve it, but in both cases it will end in tears. If you achieve it you will see the utter futility of it all.

The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original, interesting, and perfectly composed photo. But like any other exciting thing in life, it is usually spoiled by some ridiculous, unpredictable, and annoying detail.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.