Julianna Baggott Quotes

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I remember my first night in L.A. I was sitting outside, looking out at the city and thinking, 'I don't know anyone.' I just approached it as a big adventure. I still think of it that way.

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

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.

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

The roll out of a new car is always filled with great anticipation; it's almost like going back to school for a new school year.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.

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.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

You’re still waiting for the running and the screaming, aren’t you?

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

I'm excited and terrified to write something new.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.