I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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.
The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.
A thousand moments lost because you took them for granted, just because you expected a thousand more.
Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.
