Expected Quotes

He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.

The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.

They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant.

Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

The CMO is expected to spend more on technology than the CIO by 2017.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.

I expected to be in the big leagues soon. I didn't know exactly how soon, but I wanted to be here soon, and I wanted to make a difference soon.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last.

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

The nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected.

As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected to be a serious candidate. He wanted the free media he would get.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.