Quotes About Expectation

Normal' is a dryer setting

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

Her great dead friends did not seem worth reading that night. They always said the same things now—over and over again they said the same things, and nothing new was to be got out of them any more for ever. No doubt they were greater than any one was now, but they had this immense disadvantage, that they were dead. Nothing further was to be expected of them; while of the living, what might one not still expect?

She was just staring; and her face, as usual, was the face of a patient and disappointed Madonna.

I'll get the popcorn." I yelled up the stairs to let Bruce know I was coming. I also had the beer and my laptop.

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt? 'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,' she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland. Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan? Maddie laughed. The Lost Boys give it away. Jamie studied his hands. Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us.

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.

What's your name?" I ask. I'm expecting something different from what we usually get down here in Soho, newbie runaways styling themselves Shadesong or Spartacus or whatever. But

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to

Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, Don't Worry, Be Happy. I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

How can one expect a state of abundance to be everlasting?

and wait for daylight.

He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

The worst is yet to come.

The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected.

How very disappointing truth is sometimes.

You can't expect to live in the world like the world's your private myth.