262 Quotes on Waiting

• I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

  Author: Renee Zellweger

• It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

  Author: Roger Zelazny

• For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

  Author: Cao Yu

• I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

  Author: Dick York

• Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  Author: Mae West

• I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.

  Author: Steve Waugh

• I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see hoe great it will get!

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

  Author: Anne Tyler

• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  Author: G. Trevelyan

• Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

  Author: Joe Theismann

• A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

  Author: Sara Teasdale

• It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  Author: Elizabeth Taylor

• I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

  Author: Thomas Sydenham

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  Author: Taylor Swift

• When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

  Author: Jim Sullivan

• I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.

  Author: Sherry Stringfield

• The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

  Author: Mark Steyn

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  Author: Hailee Steinfeld

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

  Author: Curtis Sliwa

• When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

  Author: Mike Shinoda

• When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

  Author: Hun Sen

• I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

  Author: William Scranton

• I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

  Author: Robert Scott

• You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

  Author: Wally Schirra

• Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

  Author: Evan Sayet

• Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Author: Carl Sagan

• People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

  Author: Percy Ross

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

  Author: Sally Ride

• Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

  Author: Jules Renard

• There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

  Author: John Ransom

• Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

  Author: Tony Randall

• Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  Author: Karl Rahner

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

• The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

  Author: William Proxmire

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  Author: J. Priestley

• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Author: Terry Pratchett

• Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

  Author: Iggy Pop

• The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  Author: Eden Phillpotts

• Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.

  Author: Wilferd Peterson

• When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there."

  Author: Elizabeth Pena

• There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

  Author: John Osborne

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Author: Barack Obama

• I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

  Author: Barack Obama

• The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

  Author: Graham Norton

• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  Author: Yannick Noah

• But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

  Author: Anna Neagle

• We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.

  Author: Graham Nash

• We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  Author: Samantha Mumba

• I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

  Author: Kate Moss

• When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

  Author: Alberto Moravia

• You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

  Author: Esai Morales

• I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.

  Author: Gwen Moore

• Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

  Author: Eugenio Montale

• But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.

  Author: Liza Minnelli

• We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

  Author: Duong Minh

• At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  Author: A. Milne

• If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  Author: Gary Miller

• I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.

  Author: Jason Mewes

• Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

  Author: Golda Meir

• Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

  Author: Cynthia McKinney

• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  Author: Ian McKellen

• There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.

  Author: Mark McGrath

• I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

  Author: John McGinley

• Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Author: Malachy McCourt

• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  Author: Rachel McAdams

• Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Author: Don Marquis

• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Author: Don Marquis

• Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

  Author: Cindy Margolis

• I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

  Author: Barry Mann

• The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

  Author: Camryn Manheim

• I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

  Author: Joe Manchin

• The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

  Author: Kyle MacLachlan

• He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

  Author: Derek Luke

• I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

  Author: Nick Lowe

• Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

  Author: Lance Loud

• But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

  Author: John Lone

• Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

  Author: Jeremy London

• We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges.

  Author: Joe Lockhart

• Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

  Author: Ron Livingston

• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Author: Anne Lindbergh

• Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

  Author: Jet Li

• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  Author: John Lewis

• What would you say? And why are you waiting?

  Author: Stephen Levine

• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

  Author: Stephen Levine

• It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

  Author: Hugh Leonard

• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.

  Author: Andy Lau

• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  Author: John Lasseter

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  Author: Karl Lagerfeld

• Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

  Author: Stanley Kunitz

• I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

  Author: Michael Kinsley

• I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.

  Author: Kerry King

• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  Author: Jack Kevorkian

• But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!

  Author: Nancy Kerrigan

• I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

  Author: Graham Kennedy

• You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

  Author: Dirk Kempthorne

• When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.

  Author: John Kellogg

• Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

  Author: Elia Kazan

• Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

  Author: Rosabeth Kanter

• It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.

  Author: Kato Kaelin

• The Indian race are waiting and praying.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

  Author: Wendell Johnson

• You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

  Author: James Johnson

• I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

  Author: Richard Jewell

• In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

  Author: Jack Irons

• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

  Author: Jean Ingelow

• There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

  Author: Lee Iacocca

• The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

  Author: Lee Iacocca

• It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

  Author: Carl Hubbell

• We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

  Author: Jean Houston

• I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

  Author: Stephen Hopkins

• I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

  Author: Bob Hope

• By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

  Author: Russel Honore

• God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

  Author: Richard Holloway

• When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

  Author: Jim Hodges

• The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

  Author: John Hewson

• I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

  Author: John Hench

• Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

  Author: Lee Hazlewood

• I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

  Author: Salma Hayek

• So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

  Author: Salma Hayek

• Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

  Author: Benjamin Haydon

• It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

  Author: Zahi Hawass

• The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

  Author: Colleen Haskell

• When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

  Author: George Harrison

• All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

  Author: Marcia Harden

• I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

  Author: Daniela Hantuchova

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  Author: Dag Hammarskjold

• The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

  Author: Douglas Haig

• Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

  Author: William Gurnall

• My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

  Author: Cathy Guisewite

• So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

  Author: Lisa Guerrero

• As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

  Author: Brian Green

• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

  Author: Baltasar Gracian

• Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

  Author: Mary Gordon

• For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

  Author: Tom Glazer

• It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

  Author: Jean Giraudoux

• If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

  Author: Dorothy Gilman

• To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

  Author: Kathie Gifford

• Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

  Author: Jim Gerlach

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  Author: Daisy Fuentes

• Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

  Author: Bill Frist

• A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

  Author: Michael Frayn

• I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

  Author: Jane Fonda

• I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.

  Author: Ken Follett

• All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

  Author: Curt Flood

• The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.

  Author: Grandmaster Flash

• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Author: Carrie Fisher

• I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

  Author: Howard Finster

• But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

  Author: Sally Field

• James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

  Author: Will Ferrell

• I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

  Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

  Author: Sam Ewing

• And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

  Author: Joe Eszterhas

• With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.

  Author: Mike Epps

• Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

  Author: William Empson

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

  Author: Ben Elton

• On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.

  Author: Hector Elizondo

• I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

  Author: Adrian Edmondson

• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  Author: Marian Edelman

• Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

  Author: Julia Dreyfus

• My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

  Author: James Dobson

• To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

  Author: Catherine Deneuve

• You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

  Author: Catherine Deneuve

• I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

  Author: Judi Dench

• Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

  Author: Don DeLillo

• Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.

  Author: Al Davis

• I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  Author: Catherine Crier

• I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

  Author: David Copperfield

• It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

  Author: Joseph Conrad

• Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

  Author: Joan Collins

• I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

  Author: Leonard Cohen

• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Author: Paulo Coelho

• There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

  Author: Alan Clark

• I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

  Author: Leroy Chiao

• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  Author: Malcolm Chazal

• In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

  Author: Bruce Catton

• The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

  Author: Bruce Catton

• It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

  Author: Dan Castellaneta

• Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

  Author: George Carver

• People are always waiting to be discovered.

  Author: Jonathan Carroll

• We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.

  Author: Russ Carnahan

• There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

  Author: Meg Cabot

• What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

  Author: George Byron

• In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

  Author: Pearl Buck

• A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

  Author: Steven Brust

• You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

  Author: Craig Bruce

• I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

  Author: John Brown

• 'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

  Author: Eric Brown

• Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

  Author: Corrine Brown

• I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

  Author: Richard Brautigan

• Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

  Author: Bill Brandt

• Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

  Author: Edward Bono

• We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

  Author: Don Bluth

• No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

  Author: Heston Blumenthal

• You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

  Author: Gary Blair

• When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.

  Author: Ritchie Blackmore

• I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

  Author: Jason Biggs

• We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

  Author: Arnold Bennett

• For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

  Author: Robert Benchley

• It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

  Author: Jennifer Beals

• I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

  Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

• This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

  Author: Clara Barton

• I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

  Author: Lynda Barry

• The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

  Author: Dave Barry

• Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

  Author: Michael Barnes

• So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

  Author: John Barlow

• My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

  Author: Tyra Banks

• It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

  Author: Christian Bale

• One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

  Author: Ella Baker

• If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

  Author: Kevin Bacon

• Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

  Author: Emanuel Ax

• You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

  Author: Michael Aspel

• I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

  Author: Shawn Ashmore

• Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

  Author: Matthew Arnold

• So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

  Author: Joan Armatrading

• You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!

  Author: Giorgio Armani

• As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

  Author: Jean-Bertrand Aristide

• I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

  Author: Piers Anthony

• There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

  Author: Marian Anderson

• It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

  Author: Kevin Anderson

• I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

  Author: Sidney Altman

• I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

  Author: Luther Allison

• I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

  Author: Kirstie Alley

• Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

  Author: Buzz Aldrin

• To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

  Author: Jenny Agutter

• The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

  Author: Theodor Adorno

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