Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Whyte

In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.

Daunte Culpepper

I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.

Danny Boyle

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

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.

I'm very pleased...It's awesome! We weren't expecting anything and we wanted to go out and be proud of the fact we were part of the competition.

Gary Baxter

I'm very much expecting to play and start.

I'm willing to be patient. You kind of have to go into it not expecting a whole lot. Being a walk-on you go in there looking at it like there's nothing to lose. It is what you make of it. We'll just see what happens. It's just a great opportunity to see what I can do at the highest level.

Peter Gade

I'm very very disappointed. I expected to go further but he played very well and gave me a lot of pressure.

Birgit Prinz

I'm totally surprised. I never expected this big win.

Ron Rivera

In a situation like that, I would have never expected him to stumble.

I must say that chimp fossils were about the last thing I would have expected to find there.

In America, we expect to see some growth and stabilization. Overall, we're going to see slow, but steady, growth.

I'm surprised. You wouldn't expect that. He's been a good coach. He's been good for the kids at Snider.

I'm not sure why we're expecting a different result when we keep doing the same thing over and over again.

I'm not sure what to expect from them. They hold teams in the 30s. All their scores are low.

I'm not surprised the stock is down. We all expected that. There are some people out there who expected to get more Hughes shares than they were able to get, and are trying to lighten their position with GM.

Jamie Dixon

I'm not surprised she's having success. She's always been the type of person that expects to win.

I'm hoping and expecting the president will stay on track as he has been in the past five years because it's succeeding now better than it ever has before. Why in heaven's name would you reverse course?

I'm hopeful that they'll come with an open mind, but I think they're just going to try and sell their point of view, which is what I would expect them to do.

I'm having fun, and the kids are, too. The kids are now expecting to win.

I'm happy right now. The kids are focused and disciplined. I expect us to work hard and improve on last year's record. It's going to be a fun year.

Investors will tolerate a small increase in inventories -- about 5 to 10 percent -- as long as there is an expectation of strong third quarter sales.

Investors were disappointed with in line results and were expecting a strong to blowout quarter.

Investors should never go into a tech fund expecting stability.

Investors should keep in mind that this (auction) process will take longer than most initially expected and will by its vary nature be lumpy.

In the second game we hit like we expected to.

Brad Lidge

In the past, guys might be wailing away expecting a fastball, but now that they know I throw so many sliders, it's different, ... This is a game where you have to make continual adjustments and get better all the time. Otherwise, you're going to be struggling.

Mike Sweeney

In the past few years, there's been a lot of hope. The key word this year is expectations -- and not just from the media. We expect a lot from ourselves, too.

Ben Gordon

I really didn't know what to expect because it was all new to me. But as I went through it all, I understood what people were looking for.

I really didn't expect to win. I was really surprised.

Tom Watson

I really didn't expect to win. I didn't expect to make 10 birdies like I did.

I really didn't expect that. I knew they weren't going to give up, I know that. We might have relaxed a little bit.

I really did expect it. I knew she was very, very talented, but I just didn't know she would do as well as she did so early. She turned out to be a big factor for us as a freshman.