Quotes About Anticipation

the world is full of the young – or even the middle-aged – who wait, patiently or impatiently, for the death of someone whose decease will give them if not affluence – then opportunity

You mean that luck turns?' 'Exactly, Hastings. And that is where the gambler (and the murderer, who is, after all, only a supreme kind of gambler since what he risks is not his money but his life) often lacks intelligent anticipation. Because he has won he thinks he will continue to win! He does not leave the tables in good time with his pocket full.

nu trecutul conteaza, ci viitorul.

I held my breath for a moment or two, and then I let myself rip.

It´s true, isn´t it? We´re all waiting for the end.

It's—it's so lovely to think of things—and then for them really to happen!" cried Tuppence enthusiastically.

It is not the past that matters,but the future

If you come to a Vicarage, you ought to be prepared to find a Vicar.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks.

A un certo punto avevano attaccato con una cover di Anything Anything dei Dramarama, e noi eravamo corsi a ballare sotto il palco, mentre il cantante strillava e si dimenava. […] E poi, quando era arrivato il ritornello finale, il cantante aveva continuato a ripetere senza sosta il verso finale: Just marry me, marry me, marry meeeee. All'improvviso si erano accese le luci, il cantante si era zittito e Jack si era inginocchiato davanti a me.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

Flying involves endless hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.

It made her—a bizarre trick—long for a past that was still in the future.

Was it too much to expect a future?

burst. How could I possibly wait? He turned to

So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.

answered in a low, breathless voice.

Utah, just waiting for the word to be given by the

Waiting for her in reception, pretending to read a paper, he was surprised by his own nervousness; an indication of how little one knew oneself. She

we predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to invent it