Elinor Lipman Quotes

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

Do not, brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a president. If you do, they will fail you at some time or place; they will do wrong or seem to, and your support be gone.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.'

After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.

To meet someone who you look up to like they are gods and goddesses, sometimes that person can disappoint you a bit.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

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.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be the easiest were actually the hardest.