Quotes of: Life-expectancy Keyword

I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

Mary Roach

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

Wolfgang Puck

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Rem Koolhaas

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Thom Mayne

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectatio...

Ayad Akhtar

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Sigmar Polke

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

Tom Rachman

Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita

Anita: She was strong. She had to be.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.

A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

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A lot of men tend to want "models" I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.

Internet Dates from Hell

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

Invisible Man

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

If You Could See Me Now

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Requiem

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

Rendezvous with Rama

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

Revolution

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

The Season of Second Chances

Love is a blur. So is this picture. But what do you expect? Murder is fuzzy, like a peach. Yummy!

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

The Shock of the Fall