#disappointing

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

#books #coming #disappointing #find #grass

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

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#because #disappointing #disapproval #found #freedom

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

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When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#back #come #disappointing #get #involved

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

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#disappointing #feeling #going #had #i

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

— Eric Bana

#bitterly #disappointing #how #live #normally

Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen. ↗

— Drew Brees

#big #disappointing #everyone #first #game

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#disappointing #europe #food #fried #fried chicken