Quotes About Expectation

There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster.

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

Spoilers are inevitable.

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it's this kind of crazy thing that you always know you're going to finish school inevitably, but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

Initially, I didn't want to watch 'The Dirty Picture.'

Fans are demanding. They want to win. They want it now. If you have an injury, they want you back the next day.

Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While fit it sometimes takes a little bit longer for some than others.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

That's what makes me insufferable to be around, is that most of my life I have assumed that everyone wants to see me perform and do things all the time.

I think there's always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

No, I didn't expect Mancini to become a manager, because of the type of player he was - he was an intelligent player, of course, but I didn't think he had the desire to become a manager. But I guess if you speak to some of my team-mates they'd probably say they didn't expect me to either. I certainly didn't expect it.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

If you take a long time over a record, you end up making something different from what you intended.

If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.