Quotes About Expectations

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

When I got on court I felt really confident, really good but I also felt like there was no pressure. No-one expected to me to win so I tried to see it as there's only an upside.

Friends were always trying to get me to do sexy photographs, but I was a little too uptight.

It's fine to admit being nervous - after the event. But if you tell people you're uptight before the game, it can be like, 'That guy's got problems. We can't trust him.'

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the further steps upwards.

Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day.

I really didn't think this was going to be a success. We did the first three episodes and I said to Adam, 'I can't see this going anywhere. I've already used up all my urban legends.'

A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it.

Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.

I'm fine, " Kate said. "In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better.""Bad deduction, " Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now.

Sure, he was attracted to her, but women always had to go beyond that.Women [had] nesting fantasies. It wasn't long before they wereredecorating your apartment and criticizing your choice of mustard.

Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.

I rarely meet men in real life as extraordinary as ones on film, and rarely see women on film as extraordinary as ones I know in real life

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

A woman never sees what we do for her she only sees what we don't do.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

Men say of women what pleases them! women do with men what pleases them.

I don't want to judge, but I've also met women who think it's cool to be out or away from their baby, and I don't get that.

I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.