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Quotes About Expectation

It's gonna be weird how there are going to be new 'Star Wars' movies every year starting in 2015. I don't know what that's going to be like, having one every year. Maybe it'll be perfect. Maybe it'll be just the right amount of time to have something to look forward to. Maybe it'll be too many at once.
~ Scott M. Gimple
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.
~ Josh Trank
When a new manager comes in you are naturally wary and it does cross your mind that you might not figure in his plans.
~ Jermaine Jenas
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
~ Callan McAuliffe
If you've invested money in buying a piece, you don't want it to just disintegrate. We all have that first wash anxiety, when that great t-shirt you've just bought shrinks away to nothing.
~ Giles Deacon
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
~ Maya Angelou
To Tess's immeasurable disappointment, she woke up.
~ Rachel Hartman
Have you ever wanted something so badly, thought you'd die if you didn't get it, then when you finally did get it, you wondered what all the fuss was about?
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Cynthia ordered Guilty Pleasure-why was I not surprised?
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I didn't mean play with you exactly," I said. "I meant…you know, keep you company so you don't feel awkward…you know, like I exercised with you." "I'll be okay alone in the backyard." He stepped off the treadmill. "I'm going to go shower." He waited a heartbeat, like he expected me to say I'd be happy to keep him company in the shower, too. Fortunately, my brain finally kicked in, and I kept my mouth shut.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Without another word, she hurried up the stairs. I hoped Jason had locked the bathroom door. Knowing Tiffany, she was hoping for an "accidental" locker room preview. Oops, sorry! Thought this was my bathroom. I'm always confusing the left side of the hallway with the right. Silly me.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I bitterly resent all that wasted time. And what I resent most of all is that the ones I did get never, never looked like the Greek statues." "The Greek-statue types may have been too busy going out with other boys to notice you.
~ Rachel Ingalls
But when they got to the room...he thought how stupid it was not to realize what it would be like: the sprung, creaky bed, sheets that hadn't been changed from the time before, and the woman herself as she undressed and the clothes came away like the store wrapping on an uncooked chicken, a large piece of meat sitting down on the bed and nothing to do with him.
~ Rachel Ingalls
But he never came.
~ Rachel Ingalls
He gets a condom out of his bag and rolls it on while I wait for him.
~ Rachel Kramer Bussel
You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
~ Rachel Kushner
I was assigned a public defender. We were all hopeful things would go differently. They did not go differently. They went this way.
~ Rachel Kushner
I thought of the girl in the photo in Ronnie's studio, the one on layaway. She was probably waiting for him this very moment, somewhere downtown. Checking the clock, applying lipstick, concentrating herself into an arrow pointed at Ronnie. Doing the various things women did when they had to wait for something they wanted.
~ Rachel Kushner
Enchantment means to want something and also to know somewhere inside yourself, not an obvious place, that you aren't going to get it p.71
~ Rachel Kushner
Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.
~ Rachel Kushner
This better be good!"said Kara
~ Rachel Roberts
What did I do, Win? You just left. You were supposed to come to my house. If it was too much, too soon, you should have told me. I'd never pressure you to do anything you didn't want to do. That's it, right? That has to be it.
~ Rachel Robinson
If I could be who you wanted, all the time
~ Radiohead
Maybe next year. Everything was maybe next year.
~ Rae Meadows