I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Anthony Doerr

Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.

Adrienne Mayor

Art Age Years Ago

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.

Alastair Reynolds

You Wit Which

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

Alberto Giacometti

Ways Way Tin

I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

Alec Berg

Fear Vision Us

Now, unfortunately, some prissy card-carrying members of the U.S. Constitution have made us all look bad by pointing out that many of the Gitmo detainees weren't guilty of anything. Whoops!

Alex Gibney

Car Yin Who

We should be pointing out people's accomplishments rather than their looks, but if it can promote our band, why not?

Alissa White-Gluz

Men Why Not Why

A number of people have read 'Two-Way Split' and made certain assumptions about what the author's like, and I'm highly disappointing to them. I don't drink, I don't eat meat; that's very disappointing for a hard-boiled writer.

Allan Guthrie

Writer Write Way

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Alva Myrdal

War Future Vice

I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World.

Amy Wax

Wounds Wound World

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

Positive You Way

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

Ang Lee

Life Tin Thing

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

Peace Hope Fear

Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.

Annie Besant

Truth Religion Men

'Graceland' getting canceled was definitely a shock and disappointing for all of us. One minute it's this. The next minute it's that.

Annie Ilonzeh

Us Tin T

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Annie Lennox

Art Tin T

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Anthony Doerr

Mom Imagination Art

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Anthony Horowitz

Great Fear Tin

I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

Antonin Scalia

Worst Wit Very

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

Anupam Kher

Car Your You

I want to request Modiji that you cannot accomplish nation-building by disappointing the government employees.

Arvind Kejriwal

Men Government You

It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure.

Ash Sarkar

I was 11 years old and was racially abused on the pitch. It was obviously disappointing to hear it at such a young age.

Ashley Young

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

Ashley Young

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Atifete Jahjaga

I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

Atticus Shaffer

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

Bayard Taylor

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Ben Bernanke

Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

Ben Domenech

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch

One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.

Beverly Lewis

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers think we live just down the street from their own home.

Bil Keane

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

Bill Bryson

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

Bill Irwin

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Bill Maher

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

Bill Plympton

The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

Billy Collins

I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.

Billy Collins

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Biz Stone

I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

Blase J. Cupich

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Bo Bennett

I personally don't like guns at all, so pointing a gun at someone or having a gun pointed at me makes me feel very unbecoming. I think they're a scourge.

Bob Morley

Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.

Bonnie Hunt

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

Brad Schneider

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

Brandon Webb

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Brene Brown

I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing.

Brett Gelman

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

Brett Young

My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'

Brian Fallon