Expected Quotes · Page 29

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live…

— Maurice Gibb

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

— A. E. van Vogt

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

— Salman Khan

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

— Anonymous

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

— Nick Bostrom

You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.

— Stephenie Meyer

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship…

— Richard V. Allen

It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from…

— Gavin Schmidt

What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I…

— Tessa Dare

This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected…

— Anonymous

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has…

— George Vecsey

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great.…

— Kirk Douglas

Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Being there for everyone else is expected of me,expecting them to be there for you is a waste of time.I've spent to…

— Abhishek Tiwari

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the…

— Sarah Bernhardt

As prime minister, I was able often to meet people, to try to understand their needs and the country's economic situation -…

— Thein Sein

There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They…

— Harbhajan Singh

I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for…

— Bashar al-Assad

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,…

— Klas Pontus Arnoldson

I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected…

— Shania Twain

Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…

— Bertrand Russell

[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing…

— Saint Basil

I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.

— Angie Stone

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.

— Louise Gluck

When I fought Jorge Cota, that's a prelim of what's to be expected from me in the future.

— Jermell Charlo

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

— Alber Elbaz

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.”

— Agatha Christie

Expect to get more than you expected [from Crash Landing project]. Expect more than a mixtape.

— Kid Ink

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

— Frederick Douglass

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for…

— Junot Diaz

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

— Rex Stout

Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay…

— Kelley Armstrong

I want to give fans what's expected of me and once I've made my mark, I can experiment and do the kind…

— Akhil Akkineni

“Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.”

— Rachel Abbott

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for…

— Mark Hamill