Famous Quotes & Sayings

Last year, you're a rookie and everything you do is a better-than-everybody-expected kind of deal. Now going into the season, there's a lot expected of you. I think that's a little different and the pressure is going to be a little different.

E. O. Wilson

Last year we were praying and hoping to get in. We expect to be in this year.

Lindsay Whalen

Last year we were 18-16, and the playoffs start, and the next thing you know, we're in the finals. Pretty cool. This year, we expected to win.

Mark McClellan

Many people were expecting significant reduction in retiree coverage, which just hasn't happened.

Seventy-nine votes is (a) pipe dream. We expect the opposition to show some statesmanship as expected of honorable representatives.

Randy Johnson

Seventeen wins is good, but I expect more this year. I want to show people I still have the stuff.

Selling the tickets, we don't expect to be a problem.

Scott Bailey

So far so good. Three percent is really good growth. ... I expect an improving job market -- 1999 was the last time people saw job growth like this.

So long as they don't threaten a nuclear exchange, some differences between India and Pakistan do not worry the Americans. Pakistanis also tend to expect too much from the Americans on such perennial issues as Kashmir.

So I would expect two to three perhaps striking the United States,

She was the difference. When you outshoot a team 2-1, and get nearly 40 on net, you would expect some to go in.

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

She's a really good player for us. She's still a little young, and as she matures, more will be expected of her.

Kathie Gifford

She sang beautifully. She looked lovely. She was wearing a wig, of course. She had been through chemo and radiation. She was very thin, which you would expect for somebody going through what she was going through.

She's incredible. That's what we expect from her every night.

She should have a really good meet (Saturday). I expect she'll do really well in the shot (put) and the weight throw.

Emily Watson

She says she hangs on to the voice even after we've left the studio, so expect an, 'I'm having a jolly good time' from her on the red carpet.

She's going to be a great hitter for the next four years. She expects it and we like it so it's working out a lot for everybody.

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

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.

We did some things well that didn't really expect after just one week of practice,

We don't have an expectation of finding anything really bad. But it's better to be on the safe side.

We didn't really expect this. It's tournament time, and we expected them to come out stronger.

Bonnie Blair

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

Ann Richards

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

We're kind of out of shape and hurt. But I expect the girls to be good this year.

Carl Edwards

We're kind of in a unique position. Nobody expects us to be here, including ourselves. We don't have pressure. And all it takes is one or two slip-ups from the guys in front of us, and we'll be right there. Hopefully they're looking back and worrying about us. I don't know if they are, but we feel like we've got a shot.

Jim Balsillie

We're not going into details--and you can expect to see other launches around the world in the not-too-distant future,

We're not going for musical excellence. It's OK to be bad. But be fun bad. The level of expectation is zero. If they're bad, we like it.

We're not fast food, so don't expect to get your food in 15 minutes.

We're not expecting to find that many out there. We don't expect to find any that are live rounds, but we have to make sure.