Simon Cowell Quotes

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

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

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

It got to be so easy that I was actually disappointed.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

Did you bring me a hamburger? Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd never asked for that before. Coffee? It's late. Doughnuts? No. What good are you then?

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

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.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

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.

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

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.