Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecelia Ahern

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

Bette Davis

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Anton Corbijn

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

Bill Bryson

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

B. F. Skinner

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

David Morrissey

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Dave Barry

The story you envision as you start out is always a great story; when the facts turn out to be different from, or more complex than, what you expected, your first reaction is always disappointment. That's when you must fight the urge to bend the story to your preconceived notions. First, it's dishonest. And second, in the end, the truth is always the best story.

David Rudisha

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

Carolina Kostner

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Bill Budge

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Danielle Chaisson

The 3s at the start of the second half put us in a big hole. We made some sloppy passes and they capitalized.

Matt Gibson

That was the key to the whole game. We had a six-point lead in the first half and a four-point lead in the second half. (The Knights) got their leads because they rebound.

Mark Cuban

That was the worst half of officiating I've ever seen. That was terrible, and I want it on the record I said that at halftime, no matter what the outcome.

Chip Taylor

That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.

Mark Belenski

That woke us up. We did not play well in the first half of the Hoban game.

Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all.

Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Richard Jefferies

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Mark McKinnon

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

E. Helm

He wanted better for myself and my sister. He didn't want me to have to endure the strenuous work.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who has a why can endure any how

Joe Johnston

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.