Quotes About Expectations

There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.

I can't get booked on the Fourth of July, or it'll be, 'Do you want to open for the opener for Toby Keith?' Hell, no.

We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.

Generally speaking people that come to an amphitheater show, they're not coming to see the opening band.

When you're opening for someone, there's no pressure.

I am a middle-order batsman. Delivering a 100-crore hit each time is the job of the opening batsman. I will come, do my job to the best of my abilities and leave the rest to my audience.

If you set the bar so high like in my opening season then you do have to try to maintain that.

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.

Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.

Fans always have an opinion of their own. We only try to live up to their expectations.

The crowd are entitled to their opinion, and as players, we have to go out there and play well.

Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.

I think there's just incredible amounts of labeling generally and as woman, as a man, as a gay man, as a mother, as a father, there's just a sense that there's opinions everywhere.

But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. But if one is in love? One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

Echan a perder todas las historias de amor intentando que duren para siempre.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.