A 'first meeting' is, by definition, a one-time opportunity, and there's no going back. Over the course of my career, I've been on both sides of inspiring first meetings that energized me for the next stage of a partnership and disappointing first meetings that left me uncertain about next steps.

Dinesh Paliwal

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

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

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

'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

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

Anthony Horowitz

Great Fear Tin

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

Arvind Kejriwal

Men Government You

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

Age Young You

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

Ashley Young

Ways Way Us

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

Politics Life Van

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

Bernard Baruch

Politics Who Vote

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

You Ways Way

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

Bill Bryson

Time Age Write

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

Bill Irwin

Music Love Us

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

Work Success Car

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

Men Up Unfair

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

Poetry Men Change

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

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

Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.

Bonnie Hunt

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

As a 10-year veteran of the NFL, I had a unique perspective weekly to see the heartfelt commitment of the fan. Regardless of years of disappointing and winless seasons, the true fans remained die-hard in their loyalty to 'the Team.'

Burgess Owens

Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

Celeste Ng

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.

Celeste Ng

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Chris Hadfield

Look, I'm a huge supporter of Obama's - he's the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he's been, at best, disappointing.

Chris Noth

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

Claudio Reyna

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

Clay Aiken

I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.

Cristina Henriquez

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

Daniel Tammet

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

When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.

David Hewlett

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

Demetri Martin

I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.

Denis O'Hare

The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care.

Derren Brown

A 'first meeting' is, by definition, a one-time opportunity, and there's no going back. Over the course of my career, I've been on both sides of inspiring first meetings that energized me for the next stage of a partnership and disappointing first meetings that left me uncertain about next steps.

Dinesh Paliwal

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

Donnie Wahlberg

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

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

What's most disappointing about May's failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.

Ed Davey

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

Emily Mortimer

I found 'The Face Of Another' by Kobo Abe disappointing despite the excellent, gothic premise: a man who's terrible facial scarring leads him to create a perfect mask.

Emma Healey

The decision of a majority of people in the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union is profoundly disappointing.

Enda Kenny