Quotes About Anticipation

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Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

That's all you're waiting for, isn't it? But no, you must have the slow death, the bloodless killing that leaves no stain on your conscience. . . .

But what if it were heaven when she got there?

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

We gamble with the thought of winning. But it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us.

The moment has been waiting the way the top step of the stairs waits for the sleepwalker.

We gamble with the hope of winning, but it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us

Ma mémoire, qui me retrace uniquement les objets agréables, est l'heureux contrepoids de mon imagination effarouchée, qui ne me fait prévoir que de cruels avenirs.

We are ever looking forward or backward, ruminating on what is past, and can return no more, or anticipating the future, which may never arrive; there is nothing solid to which the heart can attach itself, neither have we here below any pleasures that are lasting.

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

But that was what made things so exciting--nothing was ever how you expected it to be.

She heard a scrape, and then a rustling sound.

Hunting is waiting, the Duke used to say, and if you never came home empty-handed they wouldn't call it hunting.

Ils croyaient qu'un jour ou l'autre, cela arriverait, parce qu'ils avaient attendu toute une vie pour cela et qu'ils pensaient le mériter. Muss es sein? Es muss sein.

So I was a poodle of the future; I made prophecies.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.