Quotes About Anticipation

And to think that he was going to live right here in the neighborhood!

Mrs. Quimby nibbled at her salad and glanced at her watch.

Ramona was the sort of girl who was always early because something might happen that she didn't want to miss.

She really was weating Stan's bracelet on her arm, something she had scarcely allowed herself to think about-at least not often; it would be so far in the future, if it happened at all. And now it had happened, months before she had dreamed it could.

There was nothing more to say. Her happy plan had come to nothing.

To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

In the evening I dined in the hotel's restaurant and bar, and afterward sat nursing Mack beers at fifty øre a sip, thinking that surely things would liven up in a minute. It was New Year's Eve, after all. But the bar was like a funeral parlor with a beverage service.

certainly have some wonders yet to find.

to wipe his brow and look sourly at his immediate future.

there. I had thought we would have

It's just that. It's just that sometimes all I see ahead of me is TV dinners - a sort of endless line of them dancing towards me like in a cartoon - Katz

Everyone suffered the same affliction: an inability to think about much else except the meal you're having now and the one you're having next.

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

When you're onstage, part of you wants to be off as fast as possible. And once you're offstage, everything is in anticipation of the next time you're on.

Here comes the great Kaka!

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

Dad says that the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it - Calvin

Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin

The boy at the far end of the train car kept looking behind him as if he were afraid or expecting someone

Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.