Quotes About Expectation

I don't think we'll see a 'Real Housewives of Koreatown' anytime soon, but here's hoping.

'Desperate Housewives' worked out beautifully. I went out for that before it began airing, and no one had any idea it was going to turn into what it did.

No one would have ever thought College GameDay would be coming to the University of Houston, I know that.

I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.

When you launch a game, you really don't know how many people are going to show up.

How many times has it happened that you're watching 'I'm A Celeb' and you're thinking 'I'm not sure about this,' then it turns into the best series.

When I came into movies or acted in 'Njandukalude Natil Oridavela' and 'Mayaanadhi,' little did I expect such a huge response from the crowd. All I expected was to work with good filmmakers.

I think because of how big the women's teams at Lyon and PSG are, the expectation on the team and the huge fan base - it leaves the door open for so much media. But I think that's a good thing.

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

At least you knew when you were on a Hulk Hogan card you were going to get paid.

I come from some humble beginnings, and I just believed that when people pay their money, hard-earned money, that they deserve a certain level of performance.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about to get laid.

It's easy to like pregnant women-they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them.

If things had gone according to my wife's vision, yesterday she would have hovered near me as I read this poem, watching me expectantly, the hope emanating from her like a fever: Please get this. Please get me.

You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don't invite over women like me unless they want something.

People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation—they're like frozen-yogurt employees who put out cups for tips.

People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation—they're

I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.

I walk a loop around the neighborhood, waiting for Nick to appear, to guide me back to our house. The rain spackles me gently, dampening me. I really believe Nick will come after me. I turn toward the house and see only a closed door.

it's easy to like pregnant women—they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.