Quotes About Anticipation

It took my parents years to save up for 'luxuries' like a fridge or a television, and we were always among the last in the street to get them.

I know what to expect from the crowd and enjoy playing in front of the big crowds.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'

When you expect something, there's also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully come with, like, a 'Fix You' - type record, or 'One' by U2.

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight.

Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

It wasn't as if we were waiting for a train, it wasn't as if we were waiting for a meal - it was just that there were was nothing to wait for. Nothing.

Then sometime there in late March, after the Indian violets had come, we would be gathering on the mountain and the wind, raw and mean, would change for just a second. It would touch your face as soft as a feather. It had an earth smell. You knew springtime was on the way. The next day, or the next (you would commence to hold your face out for the feel), the soft touch would come again. It would last a little longer and be sweeter and smell stronger.

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.

The worst thing never quite comes.

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans

Underneath were the printed letters and they said: "I will cum bak.

And as she lay and listened, it was as if she were not only listening but waiting for something. She did not know at all what she was waiting for, but waiting she was.

Ik hou van de spannende periode van afwachten, van de geestelijke en fysieke sensatie van bochten als iets geheimzinnigs naar de oppervlakte van het bewustzijn zigzagt.

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.