Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elon Musk

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Frank White

You never know what to expect when a guy comes back after missing a year. You have to be patient and work with him and hopefully he'll work with us and not push it too hard.

Maria Sharapova

You never know what to expect in the first round. I did enough to win and I'm pretty satisfied.

Venus Williams

You never know what life is going to throw at you and each and every day I just expect the sun to come up, that's all, these days.

You never know. This is not the time to do it, but she did it. I wasn't expecting it. She was feeling great. Who knows? . . . Every indication this morning was she would run a big race today.

Jonathan Cheechoo

You never expect to have anything like this, but this is what I worked for. This is what I spent my summer training for. I wanted to be as good as I could. ... I always liked the way (Thornton) played, and I watched him play a lot growing up, when he was in juniors. He's a great passer, and I like to shoot.

You never expect to have a 10-run game. You play hard and hope you play well and come out on top. Obviously, H-F has a good team, but when we play well we can score some runs.

Jerome James

You never expect this, but it's the lows and highs of the N.B.A..

You never expect someone to be fatally shot on your front lawn. My wife says it may be time to move.

Michael Robinson

You never expect it to be this easy,

Drew Brees

You never expect a rookie to be able to step in and do the job they did. Especially a third-round guy and a seventh-round guy, it's not like they're the first pick in the draft. They just stepped in with an attitude.

Sam Jones

You read that in the paper every day, but you never expect it to happen to you.

You need to explain they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace and what are the ramifications if they violate the policy.

You normally wouldn't expect this kind of activity.

Dom Capers

You put yourself in such a hole and give up that much hidden yardage. You can't do that and expect to win in the NFL.

Rusty Wallace

You pretty much come into the Pocono races always expecting the unexpected to happen.

James D'arcy

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

George Eliot

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Mark Goddard

I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own.

I hope that's a preview of what we're going to see from him. That's what we expect from him.

I initially knew it would be a tough series; we never ran away from them in the regular season, so I don't expect to in this one.

I knew Zamora was good at knocking down shots, but he did it much better than I expected today." ()

Judith Guest

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

If I stayed 25 more years, I'd be 81 when I retired. As of now, I've not made any specific plans for retirement, so I expect to be around for some time to come.

If I expected our girls to be up for all 44 games, I'd be crazy. You can't keep telling them that every game is a big game. The kids know what games they need to be up for. Our philosophy this year has been 'Respect everybody, but fear nobody.' That's the way we've approached it.

Steven Weber

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

Samuel Alexander

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Samuel Alexander

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Heath Ledger

I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

Hideo Kojima

As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.

Richard Carlson

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

Robert Bresson

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

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.