Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Colin Firth

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

Colin Meloy

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Bram Stoker

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Bram Stoker

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Max Heindel

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Jennifer Morrison

I got really jealous. Being in touch with Cameron's feelings, it was kind of hard to watch.

Evelyn Underhill

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Publilius Syrus

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.