Quotes About Expectations

The hard part is discovering the name of the beer. We know how to brew good beer, but it is the name that animates the liquid and gives it a voice. The flavor comes afterward, to the consumer, and it must live up to their expectations, but first there is the name. If the beer really does speak, the label is the first sentence.

The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow.

It can't always be a honeymoon

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

Ajatella, jos ei koskaan voisi tulla iloiseksi tai pettyä, mietti isä veneen kiitäessä läpi myrskyn. Ei koskaan voisi pitää kenestäkään, eikä suuttua eikä antaa anteeksi. Ei koskaan voisi nukkua eikä palella, ei koskaan erehtyä, ei tuntea vatsakipua eikä toipua siitä, ei viettää syntymäpäivää, ei juoda olutta eikä tuntea pahaa omaatuntoa...

Sometimes people are very predictable: they want a kitten in June, for example, and come the first of September they want someone to drown their cat. So someone does. But other times, people have dreams and things they want they can keep. Eriksson was the man who fulfilled these dreams. No one knew exactly what he found for himself along the way - probably a lot less than people thought. But he went on doing it anyway, perhaps for the sake of the search.

But I was held down to earth by being constantly reminded that the world expects much of the gifted and that having talent is never an excuse for not using it.

Just think, never to be glad nor disappointed. Never to like anyone and get crossed at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a belly-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink a beer and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hattifattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful of anything.

I want to have kids some day, but I have to consider the crying, changing clothes, the bottles, the late night feedings . . . and then there's also a baby to take care of.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Was Frank right that she needed to experience what normal felt like? Or would she always be the princess in the tower who could never find the stairs?

Am I so desperate I must accept any gentleman who is not a villain or a gargoyle?

When her father had taught her to fly, he hadn't expected her to take to it so strongly. She knew this because he'd told her as much. He wanted her to be serious and concentrate on her schooling. Focus on being a duster for his groves. The fancy flying, the dips and twists and turns . . . it had never been important to anyone but her. And maybe Calix, who knew how much she loved being in the sky.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

When you accept that life does not turn out the way it "should," you are free to take actions that are not constrained by the need to control life so it turns out the way that it "should" (or, at the very least, to make sure life doesn't turn out the way it "shouldn't").

For example, all human beings grow up believing that life should turn out one way or another. This drives you, as an individual, to constantly compare your current reality with the ideal in your mind of how life "should" turn out—which in turn affects a startling amount of what you do.

There is a way that things should he. And when they are that way, things are right. When they're not that way, there's something wrong with me (the interpreter of events), with them (other people), or with it (anything in the world).

There is a way that things should be. And when they are that way, things are right. When they're not that way, something is wrong with you, them, or it.

I am not What you intend me to be.