#expected

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cold #editors #expected #get #had

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#am #devoutly #expected #happy #i

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#being #car #clothes #drive #expected

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#enter #expected #i #know #movie

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little. ↗

— David Chalmers

#any #anyone #been #catch #course

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#unexpected

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#unexpected

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#patrick-o-brian #unexpected

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#past #unexpected

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#exploration #night-sky #nocturnal #skywatcher #space