Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orlando Jones

To be honest, I just didn't want to say ""Thank you,"" ""Please,"" and ""Come again"" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.

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.

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.

Thomas Burke

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Lisa Bluder

It was a long wait. It seemed like forever. I wish we could relive it again., though, I wish we could see our name and relive it again, because that was a fun moment.

Marissa Brown

Things are going pretty well this year. It has been a lot of fun to be a part of this team.

Jason Giambi

This is the fun time of the year. This is what you play the whole season for. ... If you don't play (well) in September, there's no October.

James Saxton

This is not fun for anybody. There are jobs on the line here.

Daniel Berthiaume

This is not too much fun right now.

Linda Postenrieder

This is such a fun and good thing for these kids. The kids are so excited.

John Scalzi

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

John Wall

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Michael Dell

I was surprised to see IBM's level of competition, ... That's something we haven't seen from them in a long time.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Anne Stevenson

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Michelle Branch

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Larry Gelbart

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

Liza Minnelli

And I'm starting work on a musical set in New York.

Mary Lou Williams

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Larry Long

I said, 'John, is everything OK with my paperwork?' He said, 'Larry, you're on the ballot.'

Jarrius Jackson

I think I had an off day shooting, but we still got the win. I did OK at the end.

Bill Self

I think he'll be OK (for Friday). He just tweaked it.

Ron Polk

I think he's all right. We'll take an X-ray for sure, but he should be OK for the weekend.

Victoria Beckham

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Tim Powers

We swam OK tonight. You could tell that we were still a little tired.

Dusty Baker

He was ok. They all say they're ok (after getting hit).

Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Ryan Reynolds

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.