Quotes About Expectation

Stuff doesn't happen till you're ready for it. She laughed, and it was a real laugh. Only in theory. Tell me, what were your first cinnamon rolls like? And didn't the recipe look simple and pure and beautiful on the page? And the instructions your teacher gave you, before he left you to get on with it, were perfectly clear and covered everything?

What if the wrong person showed up first and said you were expecting them?' I said. 'I told them middling tall, skinny, weird-looking hair because it will have just been let out of being tied up in a scarf for working in a restaurant and you never comb it, wearing a fierce look,' said Pat. 'I was pretty safe.' 'Fierce?' I said. I also thought, Skinny?, but I have my pride. The part about my hair is true.

Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

Dare to dream that you are more than the sum of your current circumstances. Expect the best. You will be astonished at the results.

La autoimagen es una especie de profecía que se cumple por sí sola.

Always underpromise and overdeliver.

Dex's mother knew what it was to lose herself in someone brighter, to be trapped by the gravitational field of another sun. She knew what happened when it emerged that the sun was only a lightbulb, and what happened when the lightbulb burned out.

Things never look better in the morning. How could they, when nothing ever changes?

A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.

The movie teaches us how action is the enemy of suspense—how action releases tension instead of building it. Better to wait for a whole movie for something to happen (assuming we really care whether it happens) than to sit through a film where things we don't care about are happening constantly.

Karl Malden once said the hardest thing he ever had to do as an actor was act as if he didn't know he was about to be hit in the head with a beer can.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

That's because people find what they're looking for. If we look for beauty, we'll find beauty. If we look for conspiracies, we'll find conspiracies. It's all a matter of setting our mental channel.

Wishes, wishes. Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true

Wishes, wishes, I told him, Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.

Flora shook her head. I have decided that it is improbable that she will answer the door.

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. 'I shall be yours,' she told him, 'when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.' But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.

Un mandarín estaba enamorado de una cortesana. «Seré tuya», dijo ella, «cuando hayas pasado cien noches esperándome sentado sobre un banco, en mi jardín, bajo mi ventana». Pero, en la nonagesimonovena noche, el mandarín se levanta, toma su banco bajo el brazo y se va.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.

Historiquement, le discours de l'absence est tenu par la Femme : la Femme est sédentaire, l'Homme est chasseur, voyageur; la Femme est fidèle (elle attend), l'homme est coureur (il navigue, il drague). C'est la Femme qui donne forme à l'absence, en élabore la fiction, car elle en a le temps ; (…)

I am waiting for an arrival, a return, a promised sign... Everything is solemn: I have no sense of proportions.

All his life he had waited for 'the great idea that … would hit me like a bolt of lightning'. Youth was when 'the bolts of lightning come, if they are ever to strike … But now … I am hardly really young any longer … and the future is unlikely to bring any.