Quotes About Expectation

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.