#expect

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bands #because #bunch #could #evidence

With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life

Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments? ↗

— Eva Heller

#expectation #life #life

On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life

I don’t demand much. All I expect is for you to love me so much you kill yourself just to get my attention. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#attention #demand #expect #expectations #love

Love is like building a wall with two bricks and a ton of wind. Obviously you and your lover are bricks.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#expectations #jordan #lan #new-spring #overwhelmed

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. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#girls #men #men-and-women #sense #men

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#actually #century #did #end #expected