Quotes About Expectations

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

You can play for a smaller club, make a mistake, and no one will really highlight it, but when you play for a big club, whatever you do is going to be in the papers.

America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

It is very tough in England. Every away game is hard, of course. And normally, if you're a big club like Chelsea, you're supposed to win games at home against smaller clubs. But in England, that's not the case. We must play well every game.

I definitely feel the pressure to lose weight and be smaller than I am.

A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.

At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

Dustin Rhodes is very mature in this business and he is a very smart man and he came up in a rough way and let me put it to you this way; when you are Dusty Rhodes' kid it is a horrible shadow to step in to, number two you've already got heat because your Dad is the booker and people think you are getting a free ride.

In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.

You have to carry yourself with respect, care about your reputation. And unfortunately, as a woman, you have to be smarter and better and you have no room for mistakes or error.

There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don't know if 'Smash' was one of them.

I planned for my first film 'Crook' - that it would be a smash hit and I would be an overnight sensation. You know how newcomers are, they live in this whole fairytale, like, 'Oh my God, everything's going to be so good and perfect.'

In the past, I worked for HAL, and when working there, I had limitations and had restrictions on what I could create. They wanted me to make the next 'Smash Bros.' and the next 'Kirby,' and that wasn't the place for me.

When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.

I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.

In the small amount of modeling work I've done, I'm always told that I never smile.

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.