Quotes About Expectation

When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

The first time I put on my play I Know I've Been Changed, I took for granted that it would be a huge success. I envisioned folks lining up outside the theater and filling all the seats. I could hear their loud laughter and endless applause resounding in my ears. Feeling optimistic, in the summer of 1993 I spent every cent from my income tax return, money that should have gone to a car

The theater had seating for two hundred people. You know how many seats were filled on opening night? Thirty. That's right. Thirty. When I looked out and saw all that emptiness, my heart sank to the bottom. I was so naïve, assuming people would just show up. On top of that, I'd booked the theater for Fourth of July weekend. I had a lot

My astrologer predicted a year of successful enterprise and good fortune. So what went wrong? Had there been some ghastly beaureaucratic astral mix up?

Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit. The freedom of the hope is complete freedom.

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.

Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her.

Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.

May you have...Enough enthusiasm to look forward

A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.

The king was pregnant.

Hope does not consist of expecting things to turn out well, it consists of hoping that it will make sense

The person who does a truly good deed does not remember it as long as does the person for whom it is done. And this is how it ought to be. A truly good deed, by definition, is not done with the expectation of instant return ("I scratched your back, now you scratch mine!").

What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve it.

I do not expect from someone what they will not or cannot give me.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

People tell me I look skinny when they want something from me. What does she want from me?

I said that I had never experienced a love-pinch and on a wave of amusement Kiser said, "Then you got that to look forward to. I don't know, though. That Yancey fella don't look very playful to me and Gaither's not a very forward boy so maybe you'll just have to skip that part of your life.

Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.