"Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed."

-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Expectations Quotes #Pessimism Quotes #Worst Quotes

“I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.”

Source : Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.
“I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!”

Source : "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.
“The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.”
“Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”
“Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.”
“It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."”
“We must think beyond ourselves”
“The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.”

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