Jewel Quotes

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

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?

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

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

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

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.