Quotes About Anticipation

Everyone in my family was pretty tall, so we always thought I would get bigger.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

I honestly thought that 'Tangled' was going to be my Disney legacy.

our civility is grounded in a genuine conviction that we have much to do by way of preparing for the city that is to come. Practicing a calm and steady humility is not merely a way of biding our time until the end-time arrives. It is itself a crucial way of anticipating the final chapter of the narrative, an important preparation for the eschaton. Indeed

No one says anything for a minute. Then Fuck Hollywood says, "I know it's early, but can we start drinking?

You ready for this?" "Of course not. Are you?" "Not even a little.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

the nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.

I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.

Yes, she's fine. She's rereading one of your books. There's not many authors she likes, so if there's nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.

Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict. Alan Christoffersen's diary

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I'll let you sweat a while. You ain't gonna know when it's comin' or from where. You'll just be walking along or riding somewhere—and bing—that's it.

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

He knows that when you snap a mast it's time to get a set of oars or learn how to breathe underwater. Rely on one thing too long and when it disappears and you have nothing–well, that's just bad planning. It's embarrassing, to think it could never happen. It happens.

and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

You thought if you handed over your body he'd do something interesting.

and everyone's watching, everyone's curious, everyone's holding their breath.

I went to the riverbed to wait for you to show up. You didn't show up. I kept waiting.

You do the math, you expect the trouble.

I'll be right here. I'm waiting.

You had expected something else, anything else

Consider the hairpin turn. It is waiting for you like a red door