Quotes About Expectation

Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

There are plenty of people I've seen and thought that person is funny, or that person is really talented, and they've got something, but maybe the buying public doesn't see the same thing I see, or the stars don't align in the right way for them.

My little brother's 5-9 and doesn't play basketball at all, but if he was 7-foot and one of the most talented people in the world, then I would assume he would be Jarrett Allen.

Berbatov is a great talent, there is no question about that, and as coaches and managers we demand more from great talents.

I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.

I was supposed to have a talk show on MTV.

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.

Everyone in my family was pretty tall, so we always thought I would get bigger.

I kind of expect that the people wouldn't know me. I know I'm tall and I cannot escape that.

Even in pictures, people think that I'm over five feet, and when they meet me in person, they're like, 'Oh, you're so short. I didn't expect that because you look so tall in pictures!'

I expect a lot from myself but, over time, I've learned to tame that.

I honestly thought that 'Tangled' was going to be my Disney legacy.

Being shot at is so unlike what one expects it to be that one can hardly connect the two ideas enough to have the appropriate emotions, the first few times.

frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.

We are learning the obedience of unwearied patience in the midst of pestering children. We are learning the obedience of absolute gentleness with the frustrations and fears and pains of our spouse. We are learning the obedience of settled peace in the expectation of events beyond our control. This is the Covenant of Holy Obedience.

But she's not going to call the cops or stab me in my sleep, and what more can you ask of a pretty girl?

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. —WILLIAM CLAYTON

You still think I have a good side?" "There's a search party out for it but I'm optimistic they'll turn up something.