#appointing

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#become #disappointing #focus #grateful #happened

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#culture #diminished #disappointing #hungry #kind

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ↗

— Max Frisch

#ending #life #meaning #precisely #proper

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#disappointing #done #end #feel #few

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing. ↗

— Will Arnett

#disappointing #doing #finally #going #sets

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#because #best #clued #constructed #disappointing

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields. ↗

— David Douglass

#deserved #disappointing #embarrassing #experts #fields

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live. ↗

— Eric Bana

#bitterly #disappointing #how #live #normally