Quotes About Anticipation

Cecil watched and waited. Unlike Mary, he was entirely prepared for what was about to happen in her country.

Her trial was fast approaching and the spider's web all but complete.

the acting profession itself is precisely and endlessly this: waiting in a room for your name to be called. And then you hear your name, and they take you through the blank door into the room.

Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

There's nothing as scary as the future.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...

When, if only for a moment, the novelist steps out of the creator's role, what roles are there for the novelist to step into? There are only creators of stories and characters in stories; there are no other roles. Ruth had never felt such anticipation before. She felt she had absolutely no will to take control of what happened next; in fact, she was exhilarated not to be in charge. She was happy not to be the novelist. She was not the writer of this story, yet the story thrilled her.

You're the biggest secret I know...The only way I know what's going on with you is the only way everyone else knows it. I just have to wait and read your next book.

As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.)

Imagining the stories you want to write, and waiting to write them, is part of the writing process—like thinking about the characters you want to create, but not creating them.

Nowadays, of course, with the precautionary tests they take—especially with a woman Franny's age—they already know the sex of the child; or someone knows. Not Franny—she didn't want to know. Who wants to know such things in advance? Who doesn't know that half of pleasure lies in the wonder of anticipation?

What bothered Ruth was that she needed to be with Rooie again -- just to see, as in a story, what would happen next. That meant Rooie was in charge.

OH, PLANS, PLANS, PLANS—how we make plans into the future, as if the future will most certainly be there!

If he'd had half a brain, he might have anticipated the problem inherent in watching a movie with Emma and Claudia.

When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening

I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled

She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bed springs as they reached a crescendo as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King

Despite its abbreviated length, February's always struck me as an especially bleak month, at least in these parts. I know it's not the darkest month, and I know it's not the coldest or the snowiest month, but February is gray in a way I can't explain. In February, all the big happy holidays are gone, and it's weeks and weeks -months, even- until Easter and spring.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Pullios stopped in the door.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Kennan saw in them the need to regard Bolshevism, "with all its hullabaloo about revolution," not as a turning point in history, but as only another milepost in Russia's "wasteful, painful progress from an obscure origin to an obscure destiny." Nothing in Brown's dispatches or in Kennan's training, however, anticipated the horrors of Stalinism. If

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

Your hair grows more quickly when you're anticipating sex.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. (Leroy Eims)