Quotes About Anticipation

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

I never sweat about work. I just assume work's coming.

The feeling I had at 14, getting selected for Everton's Under-15 side - that excitement, pride, all the emotions - it never goes away. It still happens when I'm waiting for the England squad announcement. I'll get sweaty palms, I'll sit and scroll through my inbox, refreshing it continuously making sure that the email comes through.

Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.

I never thought I would ever win a Daytona 500. I never thought we would sweep Bristol. I just never thought any of that stuff was going to happen or be possible.

I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.

I got lucky with 'The Girlfriend Experience' in the sense that it was one season and was meant to be that way. When I signed on, they told me that every season is going to be a different girl. I was like, 'Sweet. If I hate it, then I'm out.'

I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along.

I lose my mind if I miss a swell that I want to be on and I have the ability to be on it.

I was one of those goofy kids whose year narrowed down to focus on Christmas from about September on. I guess I was like Ralphie in 'A Christmas Story,' in that I would get swept up into the anticipation of the holiday, watching the lights go up, hearing the songs in the stores, getting special Christmas issues of comics and all that.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

If the keeper is standing up, in the fear of getting stumped, the batsman will not try to walk down the wicket to negate the swing.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.

In all my imaginings about what it would mean to have her in my life, I had forgotten to include the prospect of joy.

I'll come back for you soon, and when I do, be ready for a kiss that'll knock you off the rails.

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

Bernard, it would have been a kindness to warn me that PC Plod was going to pay a visit.

Agir en primitif et prévoir en stratège.