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Quotes About Expectation

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first
~ Unknown
I know not what tomorrow will bring.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now
~ Murray Walker
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?
~ Billy Connolly
If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
~ Sacha Guitry
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
~ Unknown
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
~ Paul Gauguin
We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Someone came too sooner.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.
~ Evan S. Connell
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.
~ Richard M. Nixon
There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.
~ Unknown
We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."
~ Dave Barry
The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
~ George Michael
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
~ Penn Jillette
I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
~ Will Ferrell
I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.
~ Eric McCormack
Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.
~ Henny Youngman
I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
~ Jerry Coleman
Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.
~ Jerry Coleman
I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze this stuff. Oh, but you need a tray. That's how they trick you into it."
~ Jim Gaffigan