Words matter. These are the best Bummer Quotes from famous people such as Aaron Dessner, Chris Martin, Claire Saffitz, Hunter S. Thompson, St. Vincent, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always want to have time to experiment, and have transitional things, and have these weird non-songs, but usually the stuff I’m working on comes down to this weird deadline, where it just never happens, and it’s kind of a bummer.
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you’re together, which is that you just like each other.
If you think about it, composed salads are like nachos (I’ll explain). When you’re eating a plate of nachos, it’s always a bummer when you get to those naked, topping-less chips on the bottom of the pile. It’s the same with salads. No one wants to find a naked leaf on the end of their fork.
The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.
The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town – hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.
It’s when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.
Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It’s depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you’ve pretty much heard the whole song, that’s kind of a bummer.
No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it’s that there’s often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.
Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I’ve got a life that is demanding my attention, so I’ve gone to prenatal yoga once. It’s such a bummer.
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don’t speak. It’s a bummer. I miss her.
It’s not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, ‘Oh, my God, what a bummer.’ We like emotionally moving experiences. It’s nothing new. It’s catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
There’s nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don’t think anyone comes to a festival going, ‘I’m gonna be a complete bummer today.’
I remember looking up wrestling schools at the age of 10, and I emailed so many people. The responses were that I had to be 16 or 18 to train, and that was a bummer.
Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there’s always a film that comes up where it’s just heaven.
To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.
I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can’t say exactly why, and it’s kind of a bummer… But I also can’t explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That’s just the way those movies go.
‘Paul’s Boutique’ was a bust, right? That was a bummer. We didn’t pause on it for a long time – we didn’t go through therapy – but it was weird. And because it was a bust, we didn’t go on tour.
One thing I don’t do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.
My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that’s a bummer.
When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That’s a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.
We really can’t go out and party every night like a lot of bands do – we have to keep our voices right for the show. It’s a bummer, but you gotta do what you gotta do to live the dream.
Personally, I don’t even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn’t treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
It really is a biological bummer that a woman’s chief moneymaking years align with her most fertile. It sucks. I wish that there was some way you could invert it.
I do feel like I’m a little too much of a bummer sometimes.
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you’re told it’s against the law in some cities. It’s definitely a bummer. It’s unfortunate.
We’re so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there’s something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you’re going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn’t have to be this big, negative bummer.
I’ve always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.
The world is a global economy. I thought, ‘It’s a bummer we don’t have a unifying currency.’ Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That’s really exciting.
Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration – we all know that – and it’s really hard to write songs if I go through a phase where I don’t feel much.
I have a whole life in New York and a life in L.A. and to live one-third of the year in a place that isn’t one of those is kind of a bummer.
You can’t fast-forward heartbreak, and you can’t rewind love – and that’s just one big bummer.
