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Quotes About Expectation

Some weddings take longer to plan than others.
~ Tina Brown
I want all my kids to have big weddings.
~ Tish Cyrus
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
~ Erma Bombeck
Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.
~ Will Chase
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
~ Diane Paulus
Money has to be an explosion of excitement and opportunity, yet we already secretly know that it doesn't do what it promises. Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12, or our first wage at the end of that first exhausting week, paid in folded cash.
~ A. A. Gill
I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.
~ John Sayles
It's not enjoyable that you are training and you know you're not going to be playing at the weekend. That's difficult.
~ Danny Rose
I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
~ Danica Patrick
You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.
~ Keith Hernandez
Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
~ Maggie Q
I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.
~ Teddy Sears
I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. 'How are those new cars?' I asked. 'They're fine,' he said. I thought he'd offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn't. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn't buy the car.
~ Stanley Marcus
Accountability for police officers should be an expectation, not an aberration.
~ Alex Padilla
I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.
~ Wolfgang Schauble
As a politician, I should expect sharp challenge from those who disagree with my decisions.
~ Dominic Grieve
My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.
~ Elizabeth May
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
~ Ovid
People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.
~ Michael Phelps
People didnt expect pop music to be authentic. There were a lot of manufactured bands - of which I love.
~ Darren Hayes
People don't expect me to make pop music.
~ Trace Cyrus
When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like 'Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'
~ Maddie Marlow