#appoint

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#beautiful #beauty #cruel #disappointment #everlasting

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#disappoint #forgive #josephine #life #out-of-love

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#better #did #disappointed #experience #fails

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#because #disappointment #every #every time #focusing

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#good #good movie #hate #i #like

Suspense is worse than disappointment. ↗

— Robert Burns

#suspense #than #worse

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#crazy #filing #had #her #just

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment. ↗

— Phil Collins

#bring #by the time #disappointment #fantastic #finished