Simon Cowell Quotes

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Some people will always be disappointed.

You should never meet your heroes.

Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

The last thing I want to do is to present something as 'Stephen King, Part II,' and have it be something that's a big disappointment.

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

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.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

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.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

I think we all have experiences when we were young where we either had an interaction with someone we admired or you know, had a vision of how they were and found out that they weren't necessarily that and that it tends to be a big let down sometimes.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this.