Quotes About Expectations

NOTE TO A WOULD-BE LOVER So, You think you got me, huh? Well, You ain't got me. You only got my underpants And they go back on Just as easy as they came off.

In the context of novel writing, this means you should lower the bar from "best-seller" to "would not make someone vomit." Exuberant imperfection encourages you to write uncritically, to experiment, to break your time-honored rules of writing just to see what happens. In a first draft, nothing is permanent, and everything is fixable. So stay loose and flexible, and keep your expectations very, very low.

She knew that most men desired her because she was attractive and she was smart, but also because she was a drunk and she was easy. This one? She hoped for his sake he wasn't as different as he seemed, because she always disappointed those men quickly or broke their hearts over time.

She cringed when she saw she needed a bikini wax - and cringed that she even got them in the first place. It wasn't the pain. It was the whole idea she was raising her daughter in a world where pubic hair was a problem.

All you have to do is work hard, obey the rules, and believe in yourself. This myth is disseminated across the political spectrum. It is the essential message peddled by everyone from Oprah and the entertainment industry to the Christian Right and positive psychologists. But this promise, as the masses of underemployed and unemployed are discovering, is a fiction.16

The coach is a human being and does not demand miracles from human beings. He has the humility to understand that there are other people with different ideas to his own, but he does not have to use those words.

Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.

I don't think I'll be playing the Mirage or the Tropicana when I'm 40.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

I think people have a misconception of athletes when they think about what goes through their heads, you know what I'm saying?

Another misconception that people have is that if you're a good-looking girl, you can get anyone. But that's the thing... it's more tough for us - when you can choose anyone, who do you choose?

I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

You don't miss what you never had.

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

I know I have missed some chances, but that's part of being a striker, and I know it's part of being a striker that when you don't score, people talk about it.