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Quotes About Expectation

I've never been one to try to find a niche for myself. I've always tried to wait and see what comes.
~ Marcia Fudge
I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.
~ Flip Wilson
If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.
~ Ari Aster
I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.
~ Colin Baker
Often, you don't want to know too much, because it does affect your performance. When you're shooting a series for nine months out of the year, you don't want to anticipate too much, because you're going to work and you have to enjoy this thing too.
~ Penny Johnson Jerald
I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
~ Judi Dench
I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.
~ Willem Dafoe
In my case, there are only two kinds of hope - Bob Hope and no hope.
~ Eddie the Eagle
When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.
~ Anne-Marie Duff
You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.
~ Lionel Barber
In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'
~ Sheryl Lee
I had no idea what to expect when I first started writing.
~ Anna Todd
A Westlife reunion is definitely going to happen - but I have no idea when.
~ Louis Walsh
I expect a lot of myself. There is no point turning up if you don't think you can win.
~ Ian Poulter
Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
~ Rafael dos Anjos
He wants to know that you'll make good decisions. …But I haven't made good decisions. Pastor Harris smiled. All that shows is that you're human. He never expected perfection.
~ Nicholas Sparks
It's not that I'm vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I'd be ready to go in a few minutes.
~ Nicholas Sparks
It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Five minutes passed, then six.
~ Nicholas Sparks
And I'll flip through the newest issue, walking back from my blue mailbox, hunting for the poem he chose over mine, and it'll be the same thing as always. The prose will have pulled back, and the poem will be there, cavorting, saying, I'm a poem, I'm a poem. No, you're not! You're an impostor, you're a toy train of pretend stanzas of chopped garbage. Just like my poem was.
~ Nicholson Baker
I was a man, but I was not nearly the magnitude of a man I had hoped I might be
~ Nicholson Baker