L. Sprague de Camp Quotes

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle.

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

There are times when things are not going according to plan, and of course, you never want those times.

We thought we'd last forever. Then, of course, we didn't, and that was shocking.

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

If you get taken out after 20 minutes it's a big blow to you.

I think with England, I look at myself and accept that I didn't do well enough; then, other times, I was playing my best football for United and England didn't happen.

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

When I graduated from college, I tried my hardest to get a job at an accounting firm, and it just wasn't meant to be. I ended up delivering pizzas and newspapers. I knew my life was cracked up to be a little more.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

I'm not really happy with my football career, but I can't complain about it, either.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts. They didn't want to hear that, and they refused to believe it. Eighteen months later they started dropping by one by one to say, sadly: "He broke our hearts." A couple of them even wept.