Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

I always tell young film-makers, 'Find the song that only you can sing.' It doesn't just come to you. It's trial and error and disappointment before you find, slowly but surely, the confidence to express your film-making identity.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I will say that Surface has been a big disappointment for us and for Microsoft. Both of our expectations from the product were much greater than what came to be and not only that. We invested enormous amount into research and development and spent a lot of time and energy into it.

It would be a disappointment for me to take a job, as often happens, having to shoot out-of-town and not where I live.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

The MLS Cup is always the goal. If we don't win that, it's always a disappointment and we haven't won. No matter how well you do in the regular season, it's always seen as a failure.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

I always felt capable of playing at the highest level. The biggest disappointment is that I've had a lot of injuries.

People watch 'The Social Network,' and what they hone in on is the wealth and the parties and the excitement, and they don't realize the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

As I look back and connect the dots, all I want to do is go back and hug my scared young self, who took a lot of steps out of impulse not knowing what will happen. So many nights of disappointment, so many others of being disillusioned where I would have just gone ahead and quit it all - I still do not know what kept me hanging in there.

As you get older, you do reflect more. They were great times, but the biggest thing we all had to deal with a lot more disappointment from an engineering point of view, there was not the reliability that there is now.

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