Expected Quotes

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

I never expected that this would be my life.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

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.