Mark Haddon Quotes

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear is exciting for me.

The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.