Quotes About Expectation

Very seldom do you look into your future with no idea of what is going to happen next. It is not a comfortable feeling, exciting but not comfortable.

hope, although rooted in the past and acted out in the present, receives its energy from the future.

He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Love is, after all, my darlings, all anticipation and imagination, and when they finally met they would say something perfectly mundane!

The amount of surprise you feel when something goes wrong is directly proportional to the amount of trust and faith you have in the code being run.

People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

When I'm in the ring I've got a million people watching me weekly, looking for me to present something memorable to them.

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

I count the weeks and days before my birthday.

You know what you are getting into, but being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.

On TV, you never know where it's going. They may even lie to you about where it's going. You never really know because the scripts come in every couple of weeks or so.

My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

Don't expect liberals to weigh the costs of their sweet-sounding policies.

Some people have asked me do you think I got David Haye at the right time, but nobody said it was the right time when he weighed in with a six-pack, looking fantastic.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.