Plutarch Quotes

I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

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

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

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.

After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my friend ordered all these trays of hot wings. They came into the room, and the little hotel sheet thing was draped over it, and I go to open it up, and it's breaded and boneless. I cried.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

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

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

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

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.

I feel whenever my shows are too hyped, they usually don't work.

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

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.