Expected Quotes · Page 24

“Roderick Baskerville-Smythe, estranged scion of this parish,” I replied. “I believe I’m expected.” “Oh,”

— Chris Dolley

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff…

— George Orwell

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it…

— David Sedaris

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

— Steve Jobs

Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.

— Karen Salmansohn

I think it's important to have a consistent communication with the fans but I don't think it should be expected.

— Beau Bokan

“People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life.”

— Julia Quinn

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the…

— Lauren Ambrose

As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the…

— Kathe Kollwitz

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project…

— Susan Sontag

All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly…

— Larry Hagman

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all…

— Barry White

She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the…

— Rainbow Rowell

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was…

— Martha Plimpton

I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in…

— Mahershala Ali

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off…

— Tom Clancy

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs,…

— Eugene Fama

If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow…

— Daniel Webster

Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue…

— Simon Kuper

What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke…

— Slash

The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave…

— Alice Steinbach

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be…

— Baltasar Gracian

People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she…

— Robert Barry

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into…

— Russell Crowe

When I stepped on the court, I expected to win, no matter who I played against.

— Mark Philippoussis

When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.

— Jim Boeheim

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected…

— C. S. Lewis

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

— Keith Rabois

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

— Maeve Binchy

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

— Jeanne DuPrau

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

— Peggy Orenstein

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

— Ludwig Boltzmann

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

— Justin Chon

You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much."…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

— Jim Carrey

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

— Harper Lee

I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

— Laura Fraser

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

— Vernon A. Walters

There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and…

— Ashfaqulla Khan