Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Clay Aiken

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Lorna Luft

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Jennifer Hudson

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Kelly Clarkson

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Anna Friel

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Rajneesh

If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

Elon Musk

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Harrison Ford

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

H. G. Wells

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

Henry David Thoreau

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.