Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Thomas

When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.

Without their strong performance, the national figures would have been in negative territory, as you would expect at this time of year.

With a tight job market, you would expect to see wages rise, but they are lagging.

With a massive shortfall in gasoline a strong possibility in the next few months and the hurricane season still active, we at least expect product prices to be supported for the time being even though oil and gas facilities are starting up again.

Andrew Bird

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

Alexander McQueen

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

We have set up an appointment for Mugabe to meet the secretary-general in Rome therefore we do expect him to be in Rome.

There is probably some expectation of interest rises here in the new year but no one is expecting a regime of rises.

There is no reason yet to expect a real weakening in sales.

Peter King

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels, ... In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

The parties are taking a small but very significant step towards putting the peace process back on a positive track. And we expect the negotiations to be tough.

The pants were getting very dirty. That's expected though when you have white on them.

There are good reasons to expect gold to keep its momentum on the way higher. If you look at the fundamental reasons that helped gold to move higher last year and this year, I think most of them are still in place.

Scott Niedermayer

The playoffs are tough. Nothing is going to be given to you. Tonight, we played like we expected that something would be given to us.

The players understand they didn't play a great second half. It's not the way we have to play in the Big Ten. You can't play one half and expect to win.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

Carlos Delgado

We've been pitching extremely well. We can't expect to throw a shutout every night. They hit more than us.

Alonzo Mourning

We've been on big fellow's shoulders the whole year. We expect him to help us get where we need to go, and that's to the finals. But we know he can't do it by himself. Man, he just turned 34.

We're the underdogs. No one expects this out of us, and they won't expect anything out of us (tonight). We can just go out, play our game and not worry.

We're the underdogs. Nobody's expecting us to do anything.

We're the underdogs here. We have to come out and play hard because people don't expect much from us.

Chris Johnson

We need to spend time resting up, but we still expect them to be competitive and have good times.

We need to review what the House has sent us, but then I expect us to take our turn at bat.

Arundhati Roy

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

Anna Kendrick

After doing 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't expect to do other musicals, but then I was offered 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are two of the greatest pieces of theater that I can think of. So obviously I wasn't going to be like, 'Oh I'm trying to really stay away from musicals right now, so thanks, but I'll pass.'

Adam Carolla

I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.

Sonam Kapoor

I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't work. And my next two films were with newcomers, and they worked well. So I've stopped expecting anything from my movies.

Brenda Strong

I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.

Colin Cooper

Tuesday we went pretty intense, but we can't do that all week and expect them to perform at the weekend. Everyone's under the same hammer. It's about which team is smarter to react to that.

David Hood

We were expecting we would see an outbreak in 2002, but maybe not of the magnitude we're seeing now.

We were expecting the worst and I think it's meeting those expectations for us at this point.

We were expecting them to focus on running McGahee but then that first series they passed their way down the field. It looks like he has all the tools.

We were expecting them to come back. They're a really good team, so I wasn't surprised.