Famous Quotes & Sayings

We don't have an expectation of finding anything really bad. But it's better to be on the safe side.

We didn't really expect this. It's tournament time, and we expected them to come out stronger.

Bonnie Blair

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

Michael Sata

To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.

Megan Fox

People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.

Maria Shriver

You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.

Om Puri

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

Tom Wolfe

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.

We'd like to see a nice gradual warm-up so we can preserve water and get the longest season possible. Right now we're expecting high water and good fun water that we haven't seen in several years.

Billy Martin

We would hope that Marcia Lewis will be able to provide you a statement in the very near future, but in anticipation do not expect any statement prior to Tuesday.

Andy Reid

T.O. has friends on the team, so they're going to feel for T.O. and like him. I expected guys to come talk to me. Jeremiah, being one of the leaders, did that. I didn't have a problem with it.

To go 0-11 last year it was so tough on all of us mentally as well as physically. We all know there's so much potential for success here. We expect to have success and win some games now.

Thought our kids played real hard. We played really well defensively, but struggled on scoring. I'll say this though: this group doesn't give up. You can't score only five points in the fourth quarter and expect to win. It's frustrating when you don't score. There were shots that we should have taken that we didn't.

We didn't return to the Premier League just to make up the numbers. None of us expected us to be in this position.

We don't have precise figures yet, but we expect the needs to increase a lot.

We don't have our vaccines in yet but we expect them to come in soon, ... But even if we were to get them in today, we wouldn't feel safe distributing them until around the last week of October.

Ken Hitchcock

When you start a goalie, you expect him to go the distance.

Billy Donovan

When you shoot like we did and the other team is shooting 71 percent from 3-point range, you expect to be down 15 or 20 points.

We are recuperating from an extreme slowing that we experienced over the summer. We were expecting the markets to pick up some and they have.

Martin Kelly

We are on heavy standby and we expect that we will probably have to open a shelter.

Halle Berry

People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

H. G. Wells

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Yeah, I do expect to be getting phone calls, that people will be lobbying me. But I think that's part of the process.

Steffi Graf

Yeah, because I did have a few weeks off with my wrist surgery, and I didn't expect to be back so quickly and then so well.

William Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

Alison Moyet

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

Anne F. Beiler

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

The reaction to the IEA report points to how jittery the market is. Given what the system went through you can expect these moves. Supplies are still pretty tight.

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

David Alan Grier

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

B. C. Forbes

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.