Walter Becker Quotes

Nothing keeps its promise.

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.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

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?

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

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.

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.

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.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

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

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.

When Carlisle released me, I felt as though the dream of being a footballer was over.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.