Quotes About Expectations

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

As professionals we have a responsibility of providing a good show for the fans. Getting hits and home runs is what they want to see.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

If she just wanted to come home at night to eye candy with good hair, I could probably be that reasonably well.