Bassem Youssef Quotes

You can't be disappointed unless you try something to be disappointed over.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

I literally cannot remember one joke.

If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

I am much more likely to care about someone trying to be funny and give them some credit for whatever he or she did that was remotely funny than I am to be mused by somebody declaring this isn't funny, that isn't funny, this sucks. If you want to write humor, you're going to have to get used to that.

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.