Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

Things are always different from what they might be.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

We just do not know what is normal.

It seems Barcelona are expected to win every title, but it is not always like this. People think Barca win automatically, but that's not the case.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?