Expectation quotes

“The future of air combat... Is it manned, or unmanned? I'll tell you in my experience, no unmanned aerial vehicle will ever trump a pilot's instinct.”
Terrence Howard - Rhodey

“- Lucy Pevensie: They're so still.
- Trumpkin: The trees? What did you expect?
- Lucy Pevensie: They used to dance.”
Georgie Henley - Lucy Pevensie
Peter Dinklage - Trumpkin

“A surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever.”
Ray McAnally - Cardinal Altamirano

“- Mary Poppins: Silence please, it's time to go to sleep.
- Jane: Oh we couldn't possibly go to sleep, so many lovely and excited things happened today!
- Mary Poppins: Did they?
- Jane: Yes! When we jumped into Bert's chalk picture!
- Michael: And we rode the merry-go-round, and the horses jumped off...
- Jane: And we all went riding down...” (continue)(continue reading)

Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
Karen Dotrice - Jane Banks
Matthew Garber - Michael Banks

“The amazing thing about change is that everyone can do it. Even the people you least expect it from.”
Ellen Muth - Jane

“- Meta Carson: I was expecting you.
- Jeff Bailey: Well... I wasn't expecting you.
- Meta Carson: Should I take that as a compliment?”
Rhonda Fleming - Meta Carson
Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey

“- Rita's Father: Married six years and you're not pregnant yet? How old are you now, Susan?
- Rita: I'm seventy-four, Dad.
- Rita's Father: You are not! You're twenty-seven. What's wrong with you? Here's your sister, married six minutes, and she's already four months pregnant!”
Godfrey Quigley - Rita's Father
Julie Walters - Rita

“The world is full of complainers. And the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee.”
M. Emmet Walsh - Private Detective Loren Visser

“Of course, if you are expecting the unexpected... well, then it really isn't unexpected anymore... and that leaves you vulnerable to the truly unexpected... because you're not expecting it.”
Bruce Willis - Joe Blake

“Once you get the shit beat out of you, the universe lets your heart expand that way. I think that's the function of all this pain and heartache that you go through and you gotta go through that to come out to a better place.”
John Cusack - Jake

“We need inspiration Francois. Because in order to build our nation we must exceed our own expectations.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“- Princess Fiona: You're an ogre...
- Shrek: You were expecting Prince Charming?
- Princess Fiona: Yes, actually. This is wrong. This is all wrong! It's not supposed to be an ogre!”
Cameron Diaz - Princess Fiona
Mike Myers - Shrek

“- Noodles: How's your sister?
- Fat Moe: I ain't seen her for years. She's a big star now.
- Noodles: We should have known, huh? You can always tell the winners at the starting gate. You can always tell the winners, and you can tell the losers.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Larry Rapp - Fat Moe

“- Natalie Keener: I thought I'd be engaged by now. I thought by 23, I'd be married, maybe have a kid, corner office by day, entertaining at night. I was supposed to be driving a Grand Cherokee by now.
- Alex Gora: Well, life can underwhelm you that way. At a certain point, you stop with the deadlines. It can be a little counter-productive.”
Anna Kendrick - Natalie Keener
Vera Farmiga - Alex Goran

“- Nux: I am the man... Who grabs the Sun... Riding to Valhalla!
- Nux: [Turns yo Max] Witness me, blood bag!
- Nux: [Sprays lips with chrome spray paint] Witness!”
Nicholas Hoult - Nux

“I'm sick of doing what you want me to do all the time. I think, in a healthy relationship, sometimes a guy should be able to do what he wants to do.”
Ed Helms - Stu

“The trouble with being the Prime Minister's sister is, it does put your life into rather harsh perspective. What did my brother do today? He stood up and fought for his country. And what did I do? I made a papier maché lobster head.”
Emma Thompson - Karen

“And now we bring home the booty!”

Josh Helman - Slit

“When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.”
Ryan Reynolds

“I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.”
Kevin Kline

“- Dusty Bottoms: Time for plan B. Plan A was to break into El Guapo's fortress.
- Carmen: And that you have done, now what?
- Dusty Bottoms: Well we really don't have a plan B. We didn't expect for the first plan to work. Sometimes you can overplan these things.”
Chevy Chase - Dusty Bottoms
Patrice Martinez - Carmen

“- Elizabeth Driscoll: I have seen these flowers all over. They are growing like parasites on other plants. All of a sudden. Where are they coming from?
- Nancy Bellicec: Outer space?
- Jack Bellicec: What are you talking about? A space flower?
- Nancy Bellicec: Well why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
- Jack Bellicec:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brooke Adams - Elizabeth Driscoll
Veronica Cartwright - Nancy Bellicec
Jeff Goldblum - Jack Bellicec

“- Cyberbob: So what do you want in a man?
- Angela: Butch, beautiful, brilliant, Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer. Spends all day dashing into fray while making world safe for democracy; at night playing Bach cantatas while curing cancer.
- Cyberbob: Settle for a guy who puts the seat down?”
Sandra Bullock - Angela

“I think it's tougher to be in your 20s because you're expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful.”
Nigel Cole

“From the most unexpected circumstance, you can find something hopeful.”
Brad Silberling