Quotes About Anticipation

And if you loved my face as much as you love Christmas, I'd be safe from year to year. The same anticipation that you hold for holidays would smother me and glad I'd be to die so loved.

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off.

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

I kept looking at the door. It seemed about to open, all the time. So much of the ghost story is the anticipation.

the best time for handling people problems is before they become people problems.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

For all the amazing experiences that await you in distant lands, the "meaningful" part of travel always starts at home, with a personal investment in the wonders to come.

I don't consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance

Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not!

I just give the class what I understand of what it wants, and keep an eye on it to see what it wants next.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

To stay ahead, always have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

To Delphine, the hesitation of March was cheering. March was all expectation, a gathering of power. Still cold but marginally warmer every day - a hopeful time of the year

I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.

People live from one play to the next. In between, before the curtain goes up, they don't quite know what the plot will be or what part will be right for them, they stand there at a loss, waiting to see what will happen, their instincts folded up like an umbrella, squirming, incoherent, reduced to themselves, that is, to nothing. Cows without a train.

Readers, friends, less than friends, enemies, Critics! Here I am at it again with Book I of Guignol! Don't judge me too soon! Wait awhile for what's to follow! Book II! Book III! it all clears up! develops, straightens out! As is, ¾ of it's missing! Is that a way to do things? It had to be printed fast because with things as they are you don't know who's living or dead!

She was the girl with her finger in the dike," she said. "Little did anyone know that when she removed it, all hell was going to break loose.

All I know is we're 16 and ready to be kissed, kissed kissed.