Steven Shainberg Quotes

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.