Quotes About Expectation

You've already said you're going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

The strange thing was that he was more relaxed, now, after being told the news. It was as if he had always been expecting it and was merely grateful that, at last, it had been delivered.

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

An intuitive part of the American ethos is a kind of protectiveness of the public's fear. We have to remember how unique that is. As scandal-ridden as we may be, we start with a basic expectation that it's not your job in public service to use it to help your friend.

To be honest, before the American publication of 'The Three-Body Problem', I prepared myself for the possibility of uniformly negative reviews.

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff.

When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaking, hoping someone would like it.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

I was only a young whippersnapper at that point. I was in pubs playing Barry Manilow songs. I didn't know what to expect.

I just try to do my best to shoot the puck and we'll see what's going to happen with it.

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.