Expecting Quotations

I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

There is no way at all that Diana was mentally unstable. There is nothing wrong with expecting your husband to be faithful and being angry when he isn't. Diana had every reason to believe that Charles and Camilla never stopped seeing each other.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down toward the trees, expecting that the next day the crash will come. You brace yourself for the impact, only to find that things have leveled out at treetop height, and you climb and enjoy the remainder of the flight.

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head Explodes' is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user's voice. And that's important to us on a global basis. Someone doesn't sign up for a service expecting that their sign up information is going to be handed over without them being asked... We're going to defend our users' rights.

Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored.

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

I do feel my loved ones that have passed on; I feel them looking over my shoulder... So yeah, that's pretty profound, when you're not expecting it, you didn't particularly believe in it and then it just sort of happens too often to ignore.

People are expecting me to still be fourteen years old. It cracks me up, especially when people see me walk by with my husband. They're like, 'What? You're married? You're not old enough to be married.' Thank you. I'm glad that you think that.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

It has gotten worse as I'm becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there's a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.

I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't work. And my next two films were with newcomers, and they worked well. So I've stopped expecting anything from my movies.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I was so shocked at the end. We didn't come expecting to lose. Next year, we're gonna be ready.

I was so surprised. I wasn't expecting it. I knew I had been nominated, but I didn't think there was much chance.

I was guarding her, and I wasn't expecting her to throw up those threes, but she did.

I was half expecting something like that to happen but I hope people realize that this is being done with a good heart.

One of the reasons I'm interested in service recovery is because years ago I was working for the customer service line of a newspaper. When people missed their newspapers, I was the person they called. I understood the situation the same, whether they cursed at me or used a friendly tone of voice. I think it's important to be very clear about what the problem was, the inconvenience it caused you, what you are expecting them to do to recover -- but be kind in your behavior as well.

I worked on a change and they had some swings today that made it look like they were expecting a fastball. I'm focused on mixing all my pitches up like I'm going to do in the season.

I was surprised three of them came in. I was expecting maybe two.

I would be surprised to have as many qualifiers as we did last year. I'm expecting to have seven or eight kids qualify.

I wouldn't expect settlements to climb and come down more than they have done. We're expecting things to stay in a 3 to 4 percent range.

When I came here, I wasn't even expecting to play. He (Bettis) was a type of guy who took me under his arm and saw something in me and he just helped me out along the way.

We had been expecting a decline in confidence for the past couple of months, and it finally came in February.

Of course the market is expecting 25 basis points.

On energy, Americans were expecting a lot more from the President. He took a tiny baby step when a giant step is required,

One of the things that's very disarming about studying perpetrators is you go in expecting to find a monster, people who are not like us.

One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner of later one shall definitely gets the fruits.

No one feels like it's going to blow the numbers out of the water compared to last year. We think back-to-school got off to a pretty slow start in July, but we're expecting retailers will make up some of the lost ground in August.

On ebay, the packages people are receiving are expected. They(consumers) have contacted a seller, have been bidding on the item and there's feedback, so usually you're expecting a package. You usually have some sense of what you're getting.

(Monday) will be the soft opening of a break-out year. I've been hearing a lot of positive things from the community. They're expecting a lot and we're ready to give it to them.

My fans were expecting me there and I did not want to disappoint them.

PMC-Sierra is expecting large growth in the market. Inorganic growth is also an option but nothing as of now.

Nobody shows up for (a concert) expecting it to be dull and boring. They want to hear something exciting. ... You'd better be better today than you were yesterday. That keeps the people coming back for more year after year.

Nobody was expecting us to be here. With a little luck here or there, it could have gone the other way.

Obviously first is better than sixth. We go in to every tournament expecting to win, but we got behind early and couldn't come back.

Obviously, I came in expecting more than never playing. I did know there was a chance. Not all coaches are as open-minded as coach Monson is.

Obviously, New Orleans wasn?t expecting the catastrophe that befell them,

Obviously people have become more confident (in) Chinese banking. People are expecting corporate governance issues are going to improve, and further improvements in risk management.

Obviously the market was well prepared for a change. Maybe the market is expecting some more calming comments from Fukui.

Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We are going out there playing to win the game.

Phil was getting about 10 or 15 minutes a half last year and he always seemed to be in the right position at the right time. I am expecting more out of him this year. With the other offensive weapons around him, I think they'll make Phil a better player.

Pfizer is becoming a value play. You're certainly not expecting a lot of growth in the future.

People were expecting a build in the products, particularly gasoline.

People were expecting a lot from me those first few games. They have to understand I was rusty.

People were expecting a lot of things from this team, and they don't realize, before we got here, they were winning 11 games and facing NCAA sanctions. They wanted national championship success right away, and we knew it wasn't going to be like that. It was going to be a long grind and process. We've done that really well, to the point where we expect to win.

People were expecting builds across the board. On that basis the market reaction that we have had is not surprising...It looks like product strength has the potential to return.

People were expecting it to be a blowout. People were expecting Auburn to show they should be in Miami. I think they're right where they belong.

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.

People were expecting that with some capacity constraints at Texas Instruments, their biggest competitor, that they would have a little better guidance." ()

People were expecting the worst and I think the reaction you saw is that it wasn't as Draconian as many had feared. There wasn't any real hard table pounding or anything in the minutes that pointed to a 50-basic point hike at the next meeting.

People were expecting us to run before we walk, ... People should be patient with us, bearing in mind that even the (Western) countries that are shouting at the top today about being democracies, it took them time to get there.

People were expecting weak retail sales, they were already in the stocks.

People weren't expecting good news from Sun, so it's not a surprise, but there's been some enthusiastic tech news recently and you need a string to keep that going. Sun didn't provide that, and in fact they countered that, so people are backing off a little bit.

Obviously it hasn't turned out the way we were expecting it to turn out,

Obviously it hasn't turned out the way we were expecting it to turn out, ... But we are grateful Gracia is alive. Our faith in the Lord is still the same. That hasn't changed.

Obviously it hasn't turned out the way we were expecting it to turn out, ... We are thankful that Gracia is alive and our faith in the Lord is still the same. It doesn't change, and that's what we're going to hold onto.

My focus all week has been on our players. They didn't come to Oklahoma State expecting this to happen. It's been hard on them. But I have a responsibility to them and to this school. I try to keep that in my mind as much as possible and keep a positive outlook.

I don't go out there expecting no-hitters or anything like that. I go out there trying to make things happen, actually expecting them to hit the ball, but where I want, not precisely where they want to. That's what happened today, and I was lucky enough to be flirting with a no-hitter.

I didn't really have any personal expectations coming into the year. I thought I'd play as much as the coach needed me, but I wasn't expecting this much ice time. I wasn't expecting to get as many opportunities as the sophomores, juniors and seniors.

I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd.

I got it off as quick as I could. There was contact I thought, but I wasn't expecting to get a call. That's just the way it goes.

I gotta say, man, I was expecting big things from you tonight. ... Dude, you definitely did not disappoint. ... You delivered, baby.

I got the sense that there was a feeling of shock. I think the fans were expecting things to be a lot different and were shocked. I think they were supportive, too, a lot more supportive than I thought they'd be with us coming in here 1-6. You know, I think the fans of Pittsburgh want to see good baseball, they want to see hustle, and they want to see wins.

I didn't come up here expecting to play. I am not really surprised. It's just whenever they need me. I am hanging out and learning a bunch of stuff.

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just get out of a chair when I'm not expecting it.