Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Nikki Blonsky

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

Mark Anderson

We are concerned. There is a going rate for fruit-picking which is about $30 a bin. They are expected to do five bins a day.

When they evacuated, what most people took out was what they could put in a car. ... I don't think any of them expected total devastation.

We never get into that. We expected to run another play, but we didn't get it.

Julie Adams

We never expected to get this far. It starts with our unselfishness.

We never expected this to happen when we started to talk to each other. It was just old friends getting in touch. Then it turned into something more.

Doug Melvin

We never expected that team to do anything like it did. He proved a lot of people wrong.

Peter Brown

We've been growing at a moderate rate since the mid-1990s. That trend is expected to continue.

David Lereah

We got to 6.6 sooner than I expected. I hadn't expected that for two or three months.

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

That first game set a tough tone for us. We expected to pull that one out when we were in position to, but St. Bernard's is a very disciplined team and they play well together. They never wavered and you have to give kudos to them.

Bill Gates

My value is still so much higher than I ever expected it to be by a factor of about 50. So the fact that at one point it was say, a factor of 60, well -- that wealth is all going back to society anyway.

I think they're very talented and he probably expected them to have a good year.

I think the way the stock was priced people expected a surprise on the upside. I don't see anything that's out of line. The numbers were fairly good.

It is an entry-level wage. It's not a wage you're expected to raise a family on. It is not one that you should be expected to remain on for a long time.

I think the radio industry expects this will end sooner than later. It's widely expected in the industry that this won't go on. It's looking dark. It's looking bleak.

Terrell Owens

Jerry, I know what's expected of me. I won't let you down.

Mark Shapiro

Jhonny's a guy that we expected to have a good year,

Micky Adams

Isaac was not expected back before the end of the season but he's recovered very, very well.

Daniel Kessler

I was at a loss for words. No one expected us to come out that way -- not even us.

Marc Crawford

I thought they were everything that we expected and think they'll only get better and help our club.

Jaret Wright

I think we expected it to be a little tighter today than it was last night. That's usually what happens, stuff tightens up overnight. But that doesn't necessarily mean anything.