Quotes About Anticipation

curious person, however, enjoys being surprised and hungers for the unexpected.

Right then, the future was barely an hour long.

In some respects, though not many, the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer.

He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.

Building the Mean Streak was not a mistake. We needed a wooden coaster and we were hoping for a Beast. But it was never on the same planet as the Beast. Nothing has ever come close to the Beast.

I tell you Charlie, I was there waiting in that field. waiting for Ede and Tom to find me. You don't think two people come together for nothing, do you? They were together because I was waiting to be found... Then she looked straight into my face and said to me: You know it, too, Charlie. All that time you waited for me to find you. What if I hadn't? What if I'd said: I won't? She turned, and clinging to my arm, she surveyed the fields of snow the stretched away to the confining wall.

Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.

Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can't imagine the future, there's no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.

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Like I keep telling people, the more thinking you do before things get exciting, the less exciting things will be. And they get plenty exciting enough.

She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.

If I'd known you were coming, he said, I woulda worn my lululemons.

oddly emphatic, as if she'd been waiting all day for a chance to discuss the weather.

She closed her eyes and tried to imagine sex entering the picture. Would sex enter the picture in a silk robe, or would it be as nude as a platter of cold cuts? Would sex enter the picture from the left or the right? Would it ring first, or would it just slide in slyly, too quick and slippery to be denied; or, would sex barge in forcibly, red-faced and green-bereted, pushing all other things aside?

Is this blasphemy, my lord? I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.

like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

There is an art to the building up of suspense.

He could tell from the faces of some of the reporters that it was going to be one of those mornings

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

They believe they know before the music does what their hands, their feet are to do, but that illusion is the music's secret drive: the control it tricks them into believing is theirs; the anticipation it anticipates.