Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Browning

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

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.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Judith Rodin

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Steve Saviano

I expected him to do this. He does it every year. Every time he comes back from an injury it's goal, goal, goal, goal. It's unbelievable. I wish I can do that.

Mike Bocock

I expected him to do the things he?s doing. I think he?s having a great year.

Bill Carmody

I expected him to be here and be ready to play. It just didn't happen. I thought our guys played hard. I thought our guys hung in there during a tough situation.

Russ Jewett

I expected her to run around 2:11 or so ... and the race was pretty good, she was actually challenging for the win. Then (Bonds) pulled away from her.

Domingo Garcia

I expected her to do that. I'm not going to take that personally.

Toni Collette

I expected her to be a little more airy-fairy, but she's not. She's really grounded. She's a very matter-of-fact person, actually,

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Ariah Fasana

Dayton put on a very good tournament and they wrestled very well to win.

Tom Harkin

Compassionate conservatism is like trying to heat up an old house with warm thoughts. It might make you feel good but it doesn't stop you from freezing,

John Shelby

(Cobb) was throwing three pitches for strikes, so I went up there sitting on the change-up. I just hoped he would throw it and he did and I made good contact.

Rand Pecknold

Colgate has some good hockey players and did a great job tonight.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Jennifer Baker

The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come to meet me for lunch.

David Calhoun

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Kenneth Lay

I was trying to see if they would meet with my lawyers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Richard Daynard

At this point, it's really open season on the industry,

Svetlana Kuznetsova

This year, I've wanted to go out and play like (the) U.S. Open champion. I put too much pressure on myself and tried to be too good.

Peter Graf

We're very opportunistic when it comes to open source.

Steve Owens

Phase four, if we can get it open by the end of the year, is going to be great.

Dorothy Denning

New vulnerabilities are continually uncovered, and systems are configured or used in ways that make them open to attack.

Zhu Chengshan

But it was not open to public visit until today.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

John Caudwell

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

Martin Bashir

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Pieter Mulder

We are now paying the price. This should not be seen as a racial argument, but as a simple truth of management.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Phil Garner

I don't think it was Weaver today as much as it was us,

Jerry Spinelli

Live today like there's no tomorrow!

Jerry Spinelli

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

Francis Maude

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

Imran Khan

My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME!

Jack LaLanne

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

Irwin Corey

Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.