Quotes About Expectations

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.

Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'