"A desert is a place without expectation."

Expectation,

4

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A desert is a place without expectation."

Exlpore more Expectation quotes

"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."

Ville Valo, Finnish Musician

Expectation, Expectations

"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Expectation, Disappointment, Hope, Surprise

"We tend to live up to our expectations."

Earl Nightingale, American Entertainer

Expectation, Expectations

"Expectation creates the reality."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Expectation, Reality, Mindset, Creation

"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Expectation, Preparedness, Mindset, Openness

"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

Expectation, Expectations

"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

Expectation, Expectations

"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Expectation, Love, Truth, Emotion

"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."

Atom Egoyan, Canadian Director

Expectation, Expectations, Film

"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Expectation, Production, Years

Explore more quotes by Nadine Gordimer

"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."

Power, Innocence

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

Life, Work, Sense, Writing

"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."

People,

"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."

Social Issues, Eye, Mind

"The facts are always less than what really happened."

Fact, Facts

"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."

Fear, Hate, Hurt

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."

History, Act, Writer

4

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Expectation quotes

"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."

"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."

"We tend to live up to our expectations."

"Expectation creates the reality."

"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."

"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."

"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."

"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."

Explore more quotes by Nadine Gordimer

"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."

"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."

"A desert is a place without expectation."

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."

"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."

"The facts are always less than what really happened."

"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."