Quotes About Expectation

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand

I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.

Since future times are facing toward us, the times following them are further in the future, and all future times follow the present. That is why the weeks to follow are the same as the weeks ahead of us.

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

The scary thing is that I sometimes think, 'Oh, I've won a Bafta. This could be the top of the precipice.'

Since the Olympics in London, people say, 'Greg's won again. That's what we all expect. Of course he wins.'

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

I used to wonder what it would be like to see my name on a billboard. I couldn't even imagine something like that. Then you see it, and, well, it just makes billboards not as special as they used to be. It's weird.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.

I remember when I read in the news that 'Wonder Woman' had been cast, and my heart sank. I had been talking to the studio for so long about doing it, and I was like, 'Well, 'that's that.' I'm sure we wouldn't have made the same choice.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

Everyone has wondered if his or her life will ultimately be a happy one.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.