Fritz Leiber Quotes

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

As bad as I thought it would be, it was worse than I ever thought it would be.

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

I was briefly bitter.

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.

I would have loved to have had a farewell match, and would have wanted the DFB to make that offer. But certain people did not plan that for me. I have to accept that.

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

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

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.