Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

- Helen Garner

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

- Steve Carell

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

- Rainn Wilson

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

- Peter Steele

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

- Moon Unit Zappa

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

- Mike Tyson

Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.

- Martha Beck

I'm such a geek now with princesses. It's pathetic.

- Lily James

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

- Jimmy Swaggart

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

- John D. Rockefeller

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

- Andy Murray

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

- Helen Keller

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

- Harvey Weinstein

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

- George Santayana

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

- Emily Browning

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

- Ehud Olmert

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

- David Caruso

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

- Dylan Moran

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

- C. J. Mahaney

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

- Claire Tomalin