Wait Quotes

‘You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.’ – Jack London

‘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.’ – Barack Obama

‘Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.’ – Marla Gibbs

‘Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Time and tide wait for no man.’ – Geoffrey Chaucer

‘Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.’ – George Herbert

‘Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.’ – Madam C. J. Walker

‘Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.’ – Franz Kafka

‘If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.’ – Red Adair

‘Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.’ – Alice Walker

‘On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.’ – George W. Cecil

‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank

‘Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.’ – Bob Uecker

‘He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.’ – Sun Tzu

‘Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ – Alexandre Dumas

‘Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t. You are in good company… You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.’ – John Piper

‘Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.’ – George Harrison

‘You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.’ – Diana Ross

‘Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.’ – Bruce Lee

‘The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.’ – Robert De Niro

‘Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.’ – Earl Nightingale

‘People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.’ – Rogers Hornsby

‘Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.’ – Steve Southerland

‘A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.’ – Horace Mann

‘I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?” – Clint Eastwood

‘I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.’ – Miguel Indurain

‘You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.’ – Craig Bruce

‘If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘Adjust to your surroundings, because the world don’t wait for you.’ – Ryan Garcia

‘Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.’ – Alice Paul

‘Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.’ – Regina Brett

‘A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‘right’ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.’ – Gabriela Mistral

‘Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.’ – Albert Camus

‘Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.’ – Voltaire

‘My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘We don’t wait for a better future, we create it.’ – Marty Walsh

‘If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘You don’t pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.’ – John Candy

‘To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.’ – Alan Cohen

‘I don’t know what tomorrow holds. None of us do. We got to wait and see what God has planned.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘Don’t wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.’ – Chris Gardner

‘Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.’ – Unknown

‘When I used to live in Chicago – went to school there for four years and lived there for two years after – the whole time, I worked at this restaurant called DMK, and people would come in, and I would wait on their tables, and they would say, ‘Oh my gosh, man. You look like the dude from ‘Parks and Rec.’ You look like Jean-Ralphio.” – Joe Keery

‘Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I don’t have to wait to realize the good old days.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘You know what they say about Chicago. If you don’t like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.’ – Ralph Kiner

‘Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.’ – Jules Renard

‘To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.’ – Norman Cousins

‘I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.’ – Richard Wright

‘The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.’ – Paul Auster

‘I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn’t wait for them. I tell them to get on board.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.’ – Countee Cullen

‘The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.’ – George Eliot

‘When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.’ – John Lubbock

‘I wait and take on projects that I think can work.’ – Kevin Costner

‘What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.’ – Lord Byron

‘I’m so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He’s an amazing director and I can’t wait to see the long version.’ – Orlando Bloom

‘We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.’ – Jean-Claude Juncker

‘I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.’ – Gene Simmons

‘A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.’ – Andy Weir

‘We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.’ – Wilbur Wright

‘I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.’ – Maurice Chevalier

‘Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘My plea is that don’t wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl’s life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.’ – Arunachalam Muruganantham

‘Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.’ – Peter Marshall

‘Money begets money. If you don’t have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that’s generating income for yourself.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don’t I take a step and move forward.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘There will always be people who will first wait for somebody’s comment and then attack them. I’ll say they are just cowards. They have no opinions of their own. It’s very easy to be a sheep; it’s not easy to be a shepherd. One should not give a damn about these trolls. One should not give them importance at all.’ – Soni Razdan

‘I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!’ – Frank Gorshin

‘Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.’ – Randy Pausch

‘And I can’t wait to see where the road leads from here.’ – Dean Stockwell

‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.’ – Phil McGraw

‘And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.’ – Spike Milligan

‘Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer.’ – Paul Kagame

‘I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.’ – Luis Bunuel

‘I’d tell my 20-year-old self, ‘Don’t be afraid to do it all. Whatever you’re interested in, just go for it. Don’t wait around for a better time.” – Angela Bassett

‘I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It’s what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I’m really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can’t wait for our fans to see and I’m looking forward to the ‘Hannah Montana’ movie that will be out in the spring.’ – Miley Cyrus

‘I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.’ – Jonathan Winters

‘Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.’ – Steve Prefontaine

‘You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.’ – George Konrad

‘I got an album concept called ‘Exit Strategy,’ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘If you don’t like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.’ – Raymond Bonner

‘It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you’ve had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you’re exhausted, and you really don’t want to clean up the kitchen now.’ – Julianne Moore

‘Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.’ – Margaret Mead

‘We’re all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn’t mean that you’re not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes.’ – Laurie Hernandez

‘Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it’s not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.’ – Chuck Close

‘When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.’ – Dolly Parton

‘It’s very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can’t wait until morning – it’ll be gone.’ – Mary Oliver

‘I couldn’t wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘Leadership is a mindset in action. So don’t wait for the title. Leadership isn’t something that anyone can give you – you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn’t end.’ – Uzodinma Iweala

‘(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.’ – Tallulah Bankhead

‘I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show ‘Nanny 911′ occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.’ – Amanda Donohoe

‘After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.’ – Menachem Begin

‘This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.’ – Omar N. Bradley

‘I just can’t think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already… It’s too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.’ – Otto Frank

‘A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.’ – Steven Tyler

‘There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he’d have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.’ – Leslie Nielsen

‘There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can’t wait to go to work? And when you’re ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, ‘I can’t wait to go home?” – Chuck Schumer

‘If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.’ – Mario Andretti

‘The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.’ – Anatole Broyard

‘Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.’ – Kris Carr

‘If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.’ – Edward de Bono

‘Fishing is quite a good metaphor for life. You do your prep, you do your thinking, you put your bait out, and you wait, confident that you’ve done your groundwork. But a lot of life is luck.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That’s terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.’ – Nick Cave

‘Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?’ – Sigmund Freud

‘If you sit and wait to feel like you are the most confident person in the room, you are probably going to be left by yourself.’ – Jacinda Ardern

”The Apprentice’ has been excellent for my dad. Before, there was always that kind of corporate, Napoleonic evilness to Donald Trump. Now people see him interacting with normal – barely normal – individuals, and it’s like, ‘Wait a second. He’s a regular guy!” – Donald Trump, Jr.

‘Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?’ – B. F. Skinner

‘It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.’ – Natascha McElhone

‘I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I’ve got some advice for the young: If you’ve got anything you really want to do, don’t wait until you’re 93.’ – Charlie Munger

‘Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.’ – Sam Rayburn

‘With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.’ – Paul Lauterbur

‘Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.’ – Dolley Madison

‘A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.’ – Cher

‘Make ’em laugh; make ’em cry; make ’em wait.’ – Charles Reade

‘When you create art, the world has to wait.’ – Will Smith

‘We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.’ – Maria Montessori

‘The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.’ – Marcel Duchamp

‘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.’ – Gary Ryan Blair

‘Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let’s talk about the patient. The patient doesn’t need a war.’ – Donald Berwick

‘Everything comes in time to those who can wait.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‘school-striking,’ and they say, ‘Oh the children are going to save us.’ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.’ – Charles Francis Richter

‘I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘A statesman… must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.’ – Otto von Bismarck

‘To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent. She can’t wait to disprove it.’ – Cary Grant

‘You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘I don’t follow what is in fashion now; I just listen to myself and what I like… I wait for the right occasion or see how I feel each day.’ – Melania Trump

‘Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.’ – Mary Manin Morrissey

‘On Sunday morning, I’m not nervous… I can’t wait to tell what God wants me to say.’ – Charles Stanley

‘I couldn’t wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.’ – Ben Hogan

‘Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.’ – Allan Bloom

‘Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.’ – Jean Paul

‘We are a primary target for the Iranian regime… We won’t wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we’ll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.’ – Mohammad bin Salman

‘People wait in line to see me, saying there’s plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.’ – Greg Louganis

‘If the label presents them with a contract that the band don’t want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.’ – Steve Albini

‘Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.’ – Anthony Burgess

‘If I don’t think something’s worth saying, I don’t think it’s quite there, I’d rather just not say it, to be honest. In that case, I’d rather wait ’till the thought is ready, ’till I feel like I’m happy with everything.’ – Hozier

‘Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘We had thousands of people outside Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad. We would wait to get inside to watch a Test at six o’clock in the morning.’ – Brian Lara

‘I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.’ – Eugenio Montale

‘We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘I can’t wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own.’ – Eve

‘We are just going to keep putting the work in and just wait until it pays off.’ – Julio Jones

‘If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.’ – George Muller

‘She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can’t wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.’ – Jamie Foxx

‘Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, ‘Wow!” – John Lasseter

‘My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘Tim Burton… as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you’ll work with him.’ – Casper Van Dien

‘I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.’ – Jacques Maritain

‘I’m free to make music – I’m sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can’t wait to put out.’ – Cliff Martinez

‘I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you’re like, ‘Wait, who are these people?” – Greta Gerwig

‘It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.’ – Eknath Easwaran

‘Don’t wait. If it’s not right, move on.’ – Andy Lau

‘Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.’ – Marcia Angell

‘The time period I had in my life to look like an idiot and fail, and for no one to see that, came and went when I was 17. When you have early success, people are just lying in wait.’ – Josh Groban

‘Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it’s a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I’ll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can’t wait to meet them.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.’ – Lou Barletta

‘A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.’ – Joan Lunden

‘If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they’re not going to happen the way you want.’ – Adam Cole

‘In a small town, residents don’t wait for the government or far-flung strangers to take care of their ailing neighbors; they do it themselves. When a farmer gets sick, the community drops everything to harvest his crops.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘Don’t wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.’ – Luka Sulic

‘I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘I don’t wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.’ – Mariano Rivera

‘My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It’s like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It’s like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don’t have to wait for the end.’ – Allan Holdsworth

‘As part of our renewal – we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.’ – Nong Duc Manh

‘All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘You get these Satanists types that don’t believe in God. OK, so you realize you don’t get Satan if you don’t get God, right? Or atheists that want to believe in ghosts. Wait, wait, wait. You can’t have a two-way go on that. You want to be agnostic, be an atheist, fine. But you don’t bring ghosts along with you.’ – Mike Leach

‘If you can’t pay for a thing, don’t buy it. If you can’t get paid for it, don’t sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don’t wait for time.’ – Ernst Fischer

‘I never let anyone lose their self-respect and make them wait in my office, or hurt them with my words, thoughts or actions. I give my e-mail address to anyone who seeks me out. I ask them to send me their work, and if I like it, I give them an opportunity.’ – D. Imman

‘A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you’re momentum’s going, that’s when people really want to get to know about you.’ – David Ortiz

‘I am a very big admirer of Bejoy’s films and have waited for five months to be part of his film. But I have no regrets and will wait for an indefinite time as, if I love and believe in something, I do it completely and unconditionally.’ – Harshvardhan Rane

‘They also serve who only stand and wait.’ – John Milton

‘I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.’ – Paul Auster

‘How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.’ – Bob Uecker

‘All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.’ – Alice Ripley

‘I remember one of them – it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us… They didn’t kill us, but they didn’t end it, either.’ – Medgar Evers

‘For all those people who always thought I was nothing more than a drag queen, wait until they see what I agreed to look like in ‘Hairspray.” – Divine

‘To wait idly is the worst of conditions.’ – Robert Falcon Scott

‘I’m not gonna ride home in the car. I’ll wait for Randy. I think I’ll get home quicker.’ – Patsy Cline

‘What’s funny is I probably still have some calligraphy business cards floating out in the world, and I can’t wait for someone to call me in a month or something, and say, ‘Can you do these for my son’s Bar Mitzvah?” – Meghan Markle

‘When I won the WGC -Bridgestone Invitational in 2015 I didn’t think I’d have to wait three and a half years for my next win.’ – Shane Lowry

‘I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn’t wait to get away from that. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a spiritual person.’ – Jeff Lemire

‘For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord’s timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘There aren’t really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It’s a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn’t arrive.’ – Ian Fleming

‘So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call ‘the breaks.’ In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things – read and write – and wait.’ – Countee Cullen

‘It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.’ – Franz Kafka

‘The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.’ – Morrie Schwartz

‘America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren’t going to wait years and years for the next book.’ – P. C. Cast

‘Strawberries are like tomatoes for me; I just won’t eat them year round. I’ll happily wait for them to come into season, then I gorge like a brown bear eating salmon before hibernation.’ – Brad Leone

‘I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you’d get the BBC’s preview. And I’d then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘I’ve been quite lucky in that I’ve managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don’t know exists yet, I suppose.’ – David Tennant

‘Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Family, to me, is most important, and I can’t wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don’t want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.’ – Drew Fuller

‘I’m the kind of person who doesn’t wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.’ – Tinashe

‘To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.’ – Tom Selleck

‘I can’t wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We’d be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can’t wait.’ – Cameron Diaz

‘I was useless in the classroom; I would spend my time looking out of the window after the first 10 minutes. But when you do an apprenticeship, you don’t have to wait for the teacher to tell you when it’s time to start, because you are on the shop floor learning for real.’ – Theo Paphitis

‘What to do when inspiration doesn’t come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.’ – John Huston

‘When we were kids, we couldn’t wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up… It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.’ – Lisa Jewell

‘The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!’ – Jacques Lacan

‘Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.’ – Stephen Sondheim

‘I was a driver and a racer. The difference between drivers, who can be great World Champions, and racers, who are also World Champions, is that racers don’t wait for things to happen: they make things happen.’ – Nigel Mansell

‘Because the hash marks are narrower in the pros, the ball’s always closer to the middle of the field. So if you’re a defensive back, you can wait a lot longer before committing to a certain part of the field.’ – Troy Aikman

‘I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.’ – E. V. Lucas

‘For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports – going around the world in the bar of a jumbo jet, ‘Tell the plane to wait, I’m running late!’ – there is something very Austin Powers about David Frost, a man who, in all seriousness, would approach women in a safari suit, with sideburns.’ – Peter Morgan

‘I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn’t just read books – he brought them alive. We couldn’t wait for the next chapter. So my love of reading started early and has stayed with me all my life.’ – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

‘It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘You shouldn’t wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.’ – Heidi Klum

‘I can’t wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I’ve decided to keep my day job too.’ – Richard Marx

‘When I go to clubs, I don’t have to wait outside.’ – Fetty Wap

‘People don’t have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.’ – Robert Mapplethorpe

‘I was an early adopter of the ‘Hunger Games.’ I read them before they were best sellers – I was on the pre-order wait list for ‘Mockingjay’ on Amazon.’ – Elizabeth Banks

‘Bloody men are like bloody buses – you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.’ – Wendy Cope

”Free’ is more of that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ kind of thing. It’s about saying ‘Wait, I’m longing for something more than I have and I don’t know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.’ It has nothing to do with what I’m going through, personally.’ – Jon Crosby

‘In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.’ – Douglas William Jerrold

‘Being in your 20s is like having a virus. You can’t do anything. You just have to wait until you’re better.’ – Taylor Tomlinson

‘I followed in my brother’s footsteps. I used to wake up at 5 a.m, and wait for him to complete his cricket practice just so I could play the 10-15 balls pitched to me at the end.’ – Smriti Mandhana

‘Sometimes you hear about people who can’t wait to leave their hometown. I did not have that feeling at all. I love San Jose, I love the Bay Area, and I love coming home to visit.’ – Anjelah Johnson

‘I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.’ – Craig Ferguson

‘Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we’re in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.’ – Raymond Kethledge

‘Be mindful of the very moment you are living. Start exactly this second. You don’t wait until the children get out of the house or when the sun comes out. Create something better.’ – Alexandra Stoddard

‘We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.’ – Boris Johnson

‘On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘I’ve seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they’re wearing makeup so they can look young, and I don’t think that’s good. They have all these products now called – wait, what’s it called, it’s my favorite – youth suppressant, or age go away; they don’t work.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.’ – Joss Whedon

‘My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.’ – Sean Astin

‘The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don’t want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I’m not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.’ – Gene Cernan

‘If you really want something, you’ve gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.’ – Krysten Ritter

‘Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.’ – Barbara Walters

‘Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.’ – Lucy Larcom

‘To fight fear, act. To increase fear – wait, put off postpone.’ – David Joseph Schwartz

‘At first, I didn’t want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, ‘Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let’s do what’s going to sell.” – Lisa Frank

‘I was walking downtown and the drunk tank stopped and picked me up… I was like, ‘Wait a minute here fellas, there’s a misunderstanding. I’m not drunk. I have cerebral palsy.’ They were like, ‘That’s a pretty big word for a drunk.” – Josh Blue

‘Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘My experience with casting children is that… the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.’ – Wes Anderson

‘You have to love the doing of what you’re doing and not wait for the phone to ring.’ – Robert Stack

‘But my mum told me it’s not good to be jealous, just work hard and keep your head down. Wait your turn.’ – AJ Tracey

‘The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.’ – Pankaj Mishra

‘When you play in Toronto you feel like you’re playing overseas. We can’t wait to go on the road sometimes just to be in America.’ – Lou Williams

‘Change is inevitable, and you can’t stop that change. You say, ‘Wait, stop,’ and it just drives right over you.’ – Randy Bachman

‘I like ’24.’ But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let yourself go in that one day; you just eat crisps and wander around madly ranting.’ – Sue Perkins

‘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.’ – Grandmaster Flash

‘I want to wait to have sex until I’m married.’ – Britney Spears

‘As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.’ – Enrique Vila-Matas

‘You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.’ – Bootsy Collins

‘Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.’ – Bear Grylls

‘I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you’re relying on the business.’ – Mia Wasikowska

‘I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.’ – Ilhan Omar

‘In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn’t instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘There are certain things I can’t do, certain pitches I can’t hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn’t what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.’ – Chili Davis

‘I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.’ – Bono

‘Love is a lifestyle. You have to become a representation of love. You have to become a pro-active contributor to love. I don’t think it’s something that you just sit back and wait on.’ – Musiq Soulchild

‘In 1990, if I wanted a pair of Calvin Klein jeans I had seen in a magazine, I’d head to the mall, sift through piles of inventory to find my size, try them on, ask the opinion of the often inexperienced sales associate, wait in line to check out, pay, and head home. The process was linear and ripe for improvement.’ – Kirsten Green

‘You’d go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.’ – Dick York

‘I used to watch Monte Irvin play when I was a kid. I idolized him. I used to wait in front of the ballpark just for him to pass by so I could see him.’ – Roberto Clemente

‘I personally want to have children. I love children, and I simply can’t wait to have a family of my own.’ – Charlene, Princess of Monaco

‘Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.’ – Bruno Mars

‘We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can’t wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension! – Pearl Mackie’ – Pearl Mackie

‘I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.’ – Cat Stevens

‘I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.’ – Yann Tiersen

‘You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you’re going to reach but that’s going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.’ – Chuck D

‘I’m the kind of person who just can’t wait to get on a train and not know where I’m going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that’s the type of man I’m attracted to – somebody with that spontaneous spirit.’ – Summer Altice

‘It is always better to wait for a good surprise instead of thinking about it.’ – Mani Sharma

‘The years of imprisonment hardened me… Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn’t be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life… there is no longer anything I can fear.’ – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

‘In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you’re preparing it for dinner. Don’t wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.’ – Paula Deen

‘There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn’t want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I’ve always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.’ – Peter Weir

‘I’ve been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It’s a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can’t wait.’ – Christina Hendricks

‘When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I’ve tried to tell my kids that you don’t wait until you’re in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.’ – Andrew Young

‘All things come round to him who will but wait.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Greatness comes to those who wait.’ – Anthony Rendon

‘I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.’ – Whitney Houston

‘If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam – oh wait, he does.’ – Ann Coulter

‘I can’t wait to get over to the U.K. for my first time ever. I’ve always heard how amazing the fans are over there – looking forward to experiencing it for myself.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, ‘Just wait.” – Gloria Steinem

‘I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common – timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don’t get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I’m not acting; I’m just expressing myself.’ – Lukas Haas

‘Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you’re batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you’re batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.’ – Yuvraj Singh

”The Haunted Man’ is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it’s a woman’s wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they’re kind of misfiring.’ – Bat for Lashes

‘Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there’s more!’ – Thomas Pynchon

‘I’m just really excited about my future and I’m really looking forward to taking challenges… and I just can’t wait to start.’ – Yuta Watanabe

‘The fat lady hasn’t sung yet. We’ll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.’ – Bobby Orr

‘It’s much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you’re so doddery it’s time you went.’ – Prince Philip

‘To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.’ – Jay Samit

‘You get into these executive offices, and people say, ‘Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity – let’s choose a black actor for this; let’s choose a Hispanic actor for this,’ instead of saying, ‘That’s not diverse, that’s just normal. That’s what makes up America.” – Aldis Hodge

‘Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits – and she can wait infinitely.’ – Rajneesh

‘If you liked repairing Funtime Freddy up-close in ‘Sister Location,’ just wait until you try to do something like that in VR, up close, personal, with these huge animatronics that are just one mistake away from jumping at you.’ – Scott Cawthon

‘Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress’ negotiations often come slow or not at all.’ – Cedric Richmond

‘It’s not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it’s a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.’ – Elon Musk

‘Sometimes we wait for thunderclaps, drumrolls, and clarion calls to alert us to what’s important when, actually, it’s most often the subtle and persistent signals around us that make the most difference.’ – Martin Dempsey

‘Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat.’ – Mario Andretti

‘Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘I’m kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.’ – Lil Wayne

‘I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I’m stranded in an airport lobby – I write. If I have to wait in a doctor’s office – I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself – I write.’ – Carmen Agra Deedy

‘We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.’ – Duong Van Minh

‘I don’t want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.’ – Jack Herer

”Work and wait’, ‘work and wait’ is what God says to us in creation.’ – Josiah Gilbert Holland

‘Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I’m a bad guy?’ – John Mellencamp

‘You have ups and downs in any field, but the wait will always be worth it if you love your job.’ – Kiara Advani

‘I’ve been victimized by general filthiness on multiple occasions… I received a nasty staph infection… I was told to wait it out… a few days later I literally thought I was going to die… I ended up being on antibiotics for five weeks and, as a result, I had to back out of the fight against Machida.’ – Forrest Griffin

‘Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can’t wait to experience that.’ – Barry Zito

‘In the countryside, litter doesn’t have a friend. It doesn’t have anybody who’s saying, ‘Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.” – Bill Bryson

‘I wouldn’t mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they’re not on a fixed salary.’ – Satyajit Ray

‘And as I reinvent myself and I’m constantly curious about everything, I can’t wait to see what’s around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.’ – Pam Grier

‘Anyone who thinks hunters are just ‘bloodthirsty morons’ hasn’t looked into hunting. If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show, or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing.’ – Donald Trump, Jr.

‘Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years – about twice as long as other bears – between having cubs. And after they’re pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn’t go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn’t stay in the same hotels.’ – Juan Marichal

‘I don’t talk about success. I don’t know what it is. Wait until I’m dead.’ – Imogen Cunningham

‘Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.’ – Juan Felipe Herrera

‘Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.’ – Teri Garr

‘I think everything I do is my early work. I can’t wait to get on to the later stuff.’ – Joseph Fiennes

‘I’d been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and ‘Coronation Street,’ but I was always hunting for work. After ‘The New Avengers,’ I never had to wait for work again.’ – Joanna Lumley

‘A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.’ – Theodore Roethke

‘I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Civilians are arrested every single day – including innocent ones – and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.’ – Al Sharpton

‘Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I’m not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.’ – Tom Hanks

‘For he who can wait, everything comes in time.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘Don’t wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it.’ – Nick Petrie

‘Food-wise, I’m trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that’s helpful. Luckily, if I don’t go to the gym for two weeks, I’m not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, ‘Just wait a few more years. You’ll feel it.” – Martin Garrix

‘When hospitals close, ambulance times can increase dramatically, and the additional wait often means the difference between life and death.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘He’s got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can’t wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.’ – Gary McCord

‘When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.’ – Hugo Black

‘It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn’t, and when it does, we may well reject it.’ – Spencer Tracy

‘My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.’ – Peter De Vries

‘We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.’ – Kofi Annan

‘I remember leaving the hospital – thinking, ‘Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don’t know beans about babies! I don’t have a license to do this.’ We’re just amateurs.’ – Anne Tyler

‘To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.’ – Amiri Baraka

‘I don’t visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won’t wait in the yard while I run in.’ – Margaret Smith

‘My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.’ – Florida Scott-Maxwell

‘To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don’t have to ask anyone or play politics. You don’t have to wait for the reviews.’ – Sandy Koufax

‘Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.’ – Al Spalding

‘America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.’ – George W. Bush

‘If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.’ – James Allen

‘Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.’ – Ellen Key

‘I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Every day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait… this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.” – Michael Phelps

‘Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That’s the American way. It’s not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.’ – Ben Nicholas

‘I’m in this position where I can afford to wait, I’m lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that’s thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you’re perceived by people. So I’m just waiting.’ – Dominic Monaghan

‘Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state’s economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.’ – Joe Manchin

‘It simply isn’t fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.’ – Dick Durbin

‘We don’t have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?’ – Robert Lanza

‘Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.’ – Alexander Haig

‘I’ll go do films for three or four months and then I can’t wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?’ – Tobey Maguire

‘Never wait for trouble.’ – Chuck Yeager

‘It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time – until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.’ – Hart Crane

‘The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that’s missing today.’ – Bobby Orr

‘The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.’ – J. Donald Walters

‘If you fall in love with somebody you’re working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.’ – Trey Anastasio

‘I’d like to fly. Then I wouldn’t have to wait in airport security lines.’ – Jim Morris

‘Music is my main goal, but I’m not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don’t want to do it because it’s the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.’ – River Phoenix

‘Most of us… are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That’s why we like movies and books so much.’ – Campbell Scott

‘A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children’s lives can’t.’ – Suzanne Fields

‘I’m in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I’m around we’ll take a look.’ – Buck Owens

‘I can’t wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He’s a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘I can’t wait to get out. It’s been much too long, I don’t like being home. I’d rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We’re gonna have the biggest show we can have. It’s gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.’ – Eric Carr

‘Maybe… there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year’s idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, ‘Let’s not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let’s get the innocent.’ – Mark Thomas

‘War in men’s eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory’s sake; – Wait a little longer.’ – Charles Mackay

‘If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.’ – George Muller

‘Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.’ – Roland Allen

‘You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.’ – Jeffrey Sachs

‘On other shows, guys can’t wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.’ – Martin Milner

‘Now I can’t wait to write my next play.’ – Scott Caan

‘Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie’s any good or not so that’s probably true.’ – Walter Hill

‘All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.’ – Bryan Procter

‘I can’t wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.’ – David Gallagher

‘It’s easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he’s hypnotized!’ – Joey Santiago

‘If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘I’m very impatient. I am. That’s the bane of my game. I don’t think about what I’m going to do – I just go hit it, I don’t stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.’ – Brett Hull

‘I think that most writers who wait until they’re inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.’ – Barry Mann

‘We have had a long wait for democracy.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘I had such a nice time making it, and I can’t wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids – even my driver.’ – David Thewlis

‘If you always wanted to wait for something better, you’d never buy anything, right?’ – Trip Hawkins

‘I just can’t wait to get out there on stage. There’s no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it – even if we’re crying.’ – Loretta Swit

‘I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.’ – Joe Cronin

‘If monarchy is corrupting – and it is – wait till you see what overt empire does to us.’ – Daniel Ellsberg

‘We’ll have to wait the old-fashioned way.’ – Wolf Blitzer

‘The problem is, when you come back in you’re sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it’s not covered in sweat.’ – Paul Ince

‘Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you’re convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there’ll be no surprises along the route.’ – John Engler

‘And if you had an, an opportunity to have a hot meal, you did. That was the cook. But you didn’t stop and say, This is dinnertime and Oh wait it’s five o’clock, it’s time to eat for supper.’ – Chingy

‘But here’s my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don’t wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.’ – Susan Estrich

‘You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that’s when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can’t wait for the bell to ring.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.’ – Donald Cargill

‘You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.’ – Ed Markey

‘Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!’ – Angie Stone

‘We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher’s salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.’ – Major Owens

‘I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I’m done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It’s hard to be patient and wait.’ – Margaret Haddix

‘Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can’t.’ – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

‘I can’t wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn’t the first consideration.’ – Kelly Lynch

‘Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?’ – Charles Bass

‘I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you’ll have to wait until January to see them.’ – Sasha Cohen

‘Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.’ – Al Lewis

‘If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It’s Europe, it’s Australia, it’s the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.’ – Susan George

‘I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I’m not one of those who’d rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they’re adjusting the lights.’ – Dana Hill

‘I don’t want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.’ – Max Cannon

‘Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don’t make a sound until you say something to the crowd.’ – Kelly Jones

‘Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.’ – Blythe Danner

‘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.’ – Colleen Haskell

‘I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.’ – Sam Waterston

‘As the days went on, I didn’t mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn’t wait to get to the ballpark I’d be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that’s why the veterans liked me.’ – Al Kaline

‘They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn’t wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.’ – Al Roker

‘A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.’ – Chuck Klosterman

‘I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.’ – Margaret Mahy

‘I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I’m not really a writer.’ – Sara Gilbert

‘I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.’ – Rene Auberjonois

‘I’m at a point where I don’t have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I’m in a comfortable zone, but I’ll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.’ – Ice T

‘I’m not here to perform. I’m here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.’ – Ace Frehley

‘At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.’ – Godfried Danneels

‘I can’t sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.’ – Tony Curtis

‘If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.’ – Ben Nicholas

‘If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I’m never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.’ – Arthur Godfrey

‘My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn’t indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.’ – Brit Hume

‘I can’t wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they’ve ever played in their lives.’ – Dan Hawkins

‘I can’t wait until we get to the stage where we don’t have to explain anymore.’ – Dan Hawkins

‘I didn’t want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.’ – Greg Ginn

‘I hate auditions – when I’m doing them, I can’t wait to get out the bleeding door.’ – Ian Hart

‘You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait… It felt weird to me. But it’s interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.’ – Sherilyn Fenn

‘There is an audience for every play; it’s just that sometimes it can’t wait long enough to find it.’ – Shirley Booth

‘Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can’t wait when the race has begun.’ – Katherine Harris

‘Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘It’s a problem for him because he’s got – like Edward VII had – nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.’ – Anthony Holden

‘I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular – I can choose that.’ – Dwight Yoakam

‘The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.’ – Joe Henderson

‘My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I’ve already told them they have to wait until they’re 18; I won’t take them to auditions.’ – Elizabeth Perkins

‘All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what’s going to happen. That was it.’ – Mark McGrath

‘It didn’t rain today, so I didn’t have to work. Why don’t you have to sit around and wait until it rains?’ – Linda Fiorentino

‘It’s my first presenting role so I’ll be nervous, but it’s going to be great fun. I can’t wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.’ – Nicole Appleton

‘In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices – take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.’ – Kay Granger

‘So it’s the kind of business where you can’t wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what’s on the news, and you know, how the world’s going to change.’ – Sanford I. Weill

‘For me, this is a familiar image – people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.’ – Piper Perabo

‘If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you’ve probably waited too long.’ – John Sununu

‘No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.’ – Jesse James

‘There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don’t think that we can afford to wait.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘In my whole career, I’ve never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There’s so many teams that are involved. You’ve got to smile because we’re in it.’ – David Wells

‘But I can’t wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I’m really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It’s been a wonderful year.’ – Gregory Harrison

‘Into The Woods was… a lot of running around in the woods! I can’t wait to see the show again. People didn’t realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.’ – Bernadette Peters

‘If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I’d be waiting for a very, very long time.’ – Wentworth Miller

‘And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.’ – Lee Ann Womack

‘As soon as I get my car I think I’ll be going to the cinema more. Since I don’t go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.’ – Tom Felton

‘John Ford was so funny that I couldn’t wait to go to work in the morning.’ – Richard Widmark

‘If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.’ – Dana Rohrabacher

‘When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they’re often not thinking. So I’m silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it’s the second train of thought that’s the better answer.’ – Robin Leach

‘When I’m performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I’m that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn’t wait to be smokin’ a cigarette, you know?’ – Etta James

‘News events are like Texas weather. If you don’t like it, wait a minute.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.’ – Weegee

‘It doesn’t help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it’s the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.’ – John Ashcroft

‘Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.’ – Erich Maria Remarque

‘You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I’ll have her trained in no time.’ – David O. Selznick

‘This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.’ – Dennis Farina

‘I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don’t know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.’ – Julie Christie

‘To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.’ – Nancy Travis

‘Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls’ clothing, I couldn’t wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy’s frocks.’ – Alison Bechdel

‘I know I’m happy and can’t wait to see where my career will go next. This isn’t the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.’ – LaToya London

‘Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.’ – Mercedes McCambridge

‘I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do – tell the story with images. I can’t wait to see what they do.’ – Laura Hillenbrand

‘You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you’ve got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!’ – John Zorn

‘I know, it’s true. I’ve played these tortured teenagers. I can’t wait to shed that image.’ – Claire Danes

‘We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We’ll have to wait and see.’ – Peter Hook

‘And I agreed with that, and I couldn’t wait to change my name anyway, because I’m not too fond of the name of Reginald. It’s a very kind of ’50s English name.’ – Elton John

‘No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.’ – Joseph Wambaugh

‘I never sit down to write. When I’m moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can’t really describe writing. It’s in my head.’ – Lenny Kravitz

‘We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.’ – Gwen Ifill

‘I don’t want to do anything like Can’t Hardly Wait, I don’t want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they’re just not what I want to do.’ – Laura Prepon

‘If I’m just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I’ll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.’ – Laura Bush

‘When I hear that somebody’s difficult, I think, Oh, I can’t wait to work with them.’ – Glenn Close

‘Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I’m sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.’ – Carole King

‘I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don’t know where it’s gonna go. Wait long enough – love will find you. Everything’s a surprise. When you think you’ve got it all figured out… as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.’ – Hector Elizondo

‘You’re at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.’ – Dave Lombardo

‘You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.’ – Sam Donaldson

‘There is – you know, there’s receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I’m in a court.’ – Patty Hearst

‘I’m humble enough to wait and just chill. I’m having fun just working with these good people, man.’ – Mike Epps

‘Now, I’m not suggesting we’re going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we’ve come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come – go, as well.’ – Michael Chertoff

‘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.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.’ – Joe Lando

‘The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.’ – Mike Fitzpatrick

‘All of us can’t wait to get out there whatever way.’ – Ronnie Wood

‘I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes – click, click, click.’ – Paul Prudhomme

‘If public opinion still endorses military action that’s one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it’s not only impatience, but there are several other factors.’ – Hans Blix

‘I love movies, I’ve always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.’ – Claudia Schiffer

‘I have always found it difficult to wait for things – whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.’ – Anna Neagle

‘But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.’ – Anna Neagle

‘Young people don’t want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I’m just beginning, never ending.’ – Compay Segundo

‘I can’t wait to see The Grinch. It’s so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I’m stoked. It’s like real life.’ – Tina Yothers

‘The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can’t wait to go, but you don’t want to leave.’ – Nuno Bettencourt

‘We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn’t want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.’ – Bobby Farrelly

‘I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn’t wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.’ – Mariel Hemingway

‘The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.’ – Anatoly Karpov

‘It’s better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.’ – Eberhard Weber

‘If you wait until the right time to have a child you’ll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it’s bad.’ – James Cameron

‘I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.’ – Joan Jett

‘By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.’ – Maureen Forrester

‘One reason I don’t suffer Writer’s Block is that I don’t wait on the muse, I summon it at need.’ – Piers Anthony

‘I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?’ – Alan Alda

‘Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.’ – Dionne Warwick

‘We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don’t want to do it yet. I want to wait until we’re 45 and we’re bitter and broke. Then, we’ll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.’ – Gene Ween

‘Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye.’ – Ken Kesey

‘I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that’s fine.’ – Rocco DiSpirito

‘However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.’ – Adam Rickitt

‘When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it’s like turning 50, I can’t wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.’ – Greg Norman

‘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.’ – Bill Veeck

‘I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.’ – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

‘I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.’ – Claudio Reyna

‘The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don’t like waiting.’ – Lee Hazlewood

‘I can’t wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.’ – Paula Abdul

‘I can’t wait to get home and wash all those socks.’ – Julianne Moore

‘Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.’ – E. W. Howe

‘I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.’ – Bobby Knight

‘Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can’t wait that long.’ – Robert Duvall

‘For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don’t just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.’ – Sean Lennon

‘I wait for death and journalists.’ – Jeanne Calment

‘Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.’ – Thomas a Kempis

‘In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.’ – James Reston

‘It seems likely that many of the young who don’t wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don’t have the patience to make art.’ – Pauline Kael

‘If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.’ – Samuel Butler

‘All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.’ – W. H. Auden

‘When you’re on a series, it’s tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you’re smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along.’ – Michael Dorn

‘Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.’ – Alvar N. C. de Vaca

‘There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.’ – Timothy Geithner

‘Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can’t wait to get to work in the morning. I’ve got steady jobs, I’ve got my health, and I’m here in the greatest city in the world. I’d be a pig not to be grateful.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘There’s like ten minutes when it’s like, ‘Okay, wait, who is this guy again?’ And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘I wouldn’t exactly call it ‘cooking’ but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it’s done.’ – Devon Werkheiser

‘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.’ – Mark Steyn

‘Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.’ – Barbara Boxer

‘Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It’s tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.’ – Peter Sarsgaard

‘I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I’ve never met a single job creator who’s ever said to me I can’t wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.’ – Marco Rubio

‘Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.’ – Kathryn Stockett

‘We have defined these characters – people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one – much like when they see Jon Hamm’s hair when it isn’t slick – they say, ‘Wait a minute, you’re all 2010!” – Christina Hendricks

‘The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.’ – Chris Christie

‘I haven’t seen it this busy since I’ve been an IndyCar driver. So I think that’s a great kind of thing that’s happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it’s an event that I’m very proud to be part of. I love it. I can’t wait to come back next year.’ – Dan Wheldon

‘If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour.’ – Cornel West

‘I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘I can’t wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that’s going to be the exclamation point.’ – Trey Anastasio

‘I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn’t wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.’ – John Grisham

‘Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, ‘Oh, don’t worry, just wait a year’, is like saying ‘Wait a lifetime’, but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.’ – Rick Mercer

‘It’s a reality that in this business there’s an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it’s more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that’s just going to have to wait.’ – Emily Procter

‘I couldn’t wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she’s actually the key to my future.’ – Emily Procter

‘In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren’t there when I came back. It’s like, ‘Wait a second – what happened here?’ It was a real learning experience. I’ve paid my dues, I will tell you that.’ – Chris O’Donnell

‘It used to bother me – having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I’d fit in, but I hated them and couldn’t wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.’ – Lily Collins

‘I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn’t wait to get off the stage.’ – Karl Pilkington

‘I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can’t wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.’ – Julianna Margulies

‘Wait a minute, I’m a fan of yours; you can’t be a fan of mine!’ – Adam Lambert

‘Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for ‘Gold Diggers,’ I said: ‘Hey, wait a minute! Those aren’t my teeth!” – Anna Chlumsky

‘I’ve noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know ‘Can’t Hardly Wait.’ I got the goth kids who know ‘Buffy.’ I got this wide spectrum of people who range from like 8 to 13 who seem to know ‘Scooby-Doo.’ Then I get the international people who seem to know ‘Austin Powers’ and ‘The Italian Job.” – Seth Green

‘I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. ‘Austin Powers’ came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on ‘Buffy’ and ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ came out.’ – Seth Green

‘I won’t wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That’s too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I can’t wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, ‘No, don’t do it.’ I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, ‘Why did you do that?” – Felicity Huffman

‘Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it’s about to pay off. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see this summer.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘If you wait this long to put an album out, you’d better be sure you tried your best.’ – Nelly Furtado

‘I don’t want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.’ – Freddy Adu

‘I can’t wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.’ – Sienna Miller

‘I think I’m fairly good with money, but I’ve developed some strange tics – in shops I don’t like to go to the counter unless I’ve got at least two things to buy. If I’m walking around with just one thing in my hand I’ll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn’t seem like a proper purchase.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society – at least on the surface. There’s a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They’re not too loud, they’re not too quiet, but sometimes it’s a little too perfect.’ – Alexander Skarsgard

‘Ideally, I’m also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.’ – Heather Donahue

‘Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it’s a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They’re going to read one chapter and say, ‘I can’t wait to get back to the other guy.” – Mitch Albom

‘I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.’ – Rihanna

‘I’ve put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we’ll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.’ – Ryan Giggs

‘I don’t set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you’re about to be judged again. When you’ve done well, you don’t want another game, you just want to feel great. When you’ve done badly, you can’t wait for another chance to come.’ – Michael Owen

‘If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That’s called dressing, and that’s not evil – stuffing is, though.’ – Alton Brown

‘I don’t want to say I can’t wait to get back to normal life, because I don’t. I don’t want to get back to normal life.’ – Chris Daughtry

‘My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.’ – Haley Joel Osment

‘If you’re the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People’s lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It’s a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I’m pushing 40, I guess I look closer to… 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don’t have one of those.’ – Gabriel Mann

‘I couldn’t wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn’t let me join.’ – David Alan Grier

‘I was once hired to write a column for ‘The Guardian’ and then got fired before I’d submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I’ve written at least one piece for them before firing me.’ – Toby Young

‘I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it’s better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.’ – William Baldwin

‘The way you continue to be a successful business is you don’t wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.’ – Roger Goodell

‘I like strong, strong women who don’t go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don’t come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I’m not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.’ – Rose McGowan

‘I’ve always wanted to be a dad. I just can’t wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I’ve become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.’ – Josh Duhamel

‘I spent most of the ’60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.’ – Barry Unsworth

‘Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.’ – Venus Williams

‘You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.’ – Jeremy Renner

‘When you first fall in love it’s so thrilling, you can’t wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.’ – Jane Campion

‘Now, I’m the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.’ – Jay Kay

‘My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, ‘Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?” – Jerry Zucker

‘I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn’t wait to be out of education.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘If you’re the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.’ – Usain Bolt

‘Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn’t wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I’m glad they did.’ – DMX

‘I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I’d been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn’t wait to get out.’ – Jared Harris

‘I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it’s time to say goodbye.’ – Gary Sheffield

‘If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they’ll have to wait until I’m out of a job.’ – Glenn Hoddle

‘I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn’t like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don’t like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I’ve been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I’ll hold his feet to the fire just as much.’ – Glenn Beck

‘Comedy can be, especially in a writer’s room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It’s not a nurturing place. It’s not like a lot of women are going to say, I can’t wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer’s room until 2 or 3 a.m.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.’ – Judy Blume

‘I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.’ – Al Yankovic

‘I didn’t have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.’ – Lena Dunham

‘I think it’s very comforting for people to put me in a box. ‘Oh, she’s a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.” – Marissa Mayer

‘Filming a movie is different from a TV show because film is a lot quicker, you get to see the character progress and grow all in one script, and in television, you wait for a weekly update on each character.’ – Ariel Winter

‘Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.’ – Anna Kendrick

‘See, what I don’t like listening to is when writers go, ‘And then the person cries.’ ‘Or the person does this.’ It’s there, but it’s not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.’ – Kim Coates

‘When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let’s wait. I’m not holding my breath.’ – Barbara Broccoli

‘Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!’ – Roger Moore

‘I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.’ – Roger Moore

‘Even the National Bank of Romania doesn’t have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they’re drawing close to a floor below which the bank’s reserves can’t drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.’ – Traian Basescu

‘It’s not like it’s hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

‘I can’t wait until I’m able to afford really posh bags.’ – Alexandra Roach

‘The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait – I didn’t intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.’ – Anne Lamott

‘When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.’ – Haruki Murakami

‘I just can’t wait for the future.’ – Amanda Seyfried

‘I didn’t want people to think I’m just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.’ – D. B. Sweeney

‘Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, ‘I love this, but I wouldn’t put my daughter on the stage.” – Eddie Redmayne

‘I wake up every day and I can’t wait to go to work, and that’s a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.’ – Tiger Woods

‘If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there’s not a whole lot of money for school, they won’t have too many options.’ – Suze Orman

‘There’s so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I’m not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don’t want to hear about it.’ – Paul Theroux

‘I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.’ – Isabel Allende

‘I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.’ – Eric Clapton

‘I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I’d won the lottery.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Now, what does an actor who can’t talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?’ – Kirk Douglas

‘I’ve been trying to do films for years. So I’ve decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.’ – James Buchan

‘Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I’m a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.’ – Nikki Reed

‘When ‘Twilight’ hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute – how is this still going up? I’m waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.’ – Stephenie Meyer

‘I don’t think there’s a date minimum or maximum. I don’t get the whole ‘All right, you’ve got to wait three days to call after the date.’ If I got a number from a girl, I’d call that night. There’s no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.’ – Channing Tatum

‘And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.’ – John R. Allen

‘There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.’ – Henrique Capriles Radonski

‘To be perfectly honest, I think that as I’m growing older, I’m just growing more impatient. I’ll be very happy if at some point people say, ‘Michael’s grown wiser and softer in his old age.’ But we’ll have to wait and see what my next project is.’ – Michael Haneke

‘I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait ’til it’s finished, because you make excuses all the time: ‘Well, there’s gonna be an orchestra on it.’ Rather than make excuses, wait ’til it’s finished, and then they can say they don’t like it.’ – Chris Lowe

‘I don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.’ – Diana Ross

‘I don’t see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they’re there and anyone can photograph them if they’re prepared to hang around and wait for the light.’ – David Bailey

‘Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors’ costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.’ – Mark Zandi

‘Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama’s face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?’ – Ron Fournier

‘I don’t really have any kind of rigorous or definite routine before I go onstage. I like to eat at least an hour or two before I go on. If I can’t do that, I just wait until after. I try and drink lots of water before I go onstage.’ – Martina McBride

‘I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that’s great, I always say it’s like you go to a movie and you can’t wait to tell your friends about it.’ – Zach Braff

‘I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I’ll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn’t wait for the day I’d be able to make music with my son. I don’t know what more I could ask for.’ – Eddie Van Halen

‘Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago – my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it’s that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can’t wait too long. It’s the single simplest measure to predict divorce.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I just want to show the world it’s never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you’re old to get it.’ – Flavor Flav

‘I couldn’t wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom’s stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.’ – Florence Griffith Joyner

‘I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem – take advantage of that.’ – Brittany Murphy

‘I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I’m not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I’ll get it.’ – Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

‘I know this is rather trivial – I will not be very deep about this – but it’s great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, ‘Okay,’ instead of, ‘You have to wait two months.” – Caprice Bourret

‘I’d say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that’s turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you’ll spot it.’ – Cat Deeley

‘Yes, I want children and I can’t wait to have that closeness with someone – to bring someone into the world. But, I really don’t know when.’ – Dominic Cooper

‘Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can’t wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don’t take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.’ – Ivan Lendl

‘I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don’t I have the numbers to be inducted?’ – Sammy Sosa

‘I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn’t available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don’t know that it’s seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?’ – Andy Cohen

‘I’ve been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can’t wait to do different characters – not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.’ – Fergie

‘Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!’ – Brit Marling

‘A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.’ – Nicole Ari Parker

‘Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can’t wait to visit again.’ – Joe Nichols

‘I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don’t really say that I’m an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can’t wait to see or show your friends, go for it.’ – Roman Coppola

‘Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don’t sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don’t have to worry about that.’ – Stephen Chbosky

‘I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might – someday. But we’ll have to wait and see.’ – Zosia Mamet

‘I’m overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I’ve admired the careers they’ve made and can’t wait to see how my musical path is paved out.’ – Lucy Hale

‘Well, it’s a little harder in New York. It’s not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who can’t cross the street, they’re not going to take it well. Southern California? They’ll wait. It’s cool man. In New York, they’re like, ‘Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work.” – Matthew Rhys

‘I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?” – Monica Potter

‘With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it’s more a polite suggestion.’ – David Benioff

‘You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.’ – Nick Offerman

‘I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, ‘Wait, I was there.’ That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.’ – Simon Winchester

‘I’m insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can’t wait to have babies.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that’s not all I want to do. And I think I’ve proven to some people – the ones paying attention – that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.’ – Marlon Wayans

‘If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don’t wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don’t mind fighting when I really want something.’ – Marlon Wayans

‘Women have to take more control of their careers. They can’t just wait to be cast in a film.’ – Richard LaGravenese

‘As a documentary filmmaker, I’m very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don’t really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.’ – Tony Kaye

‘As an actor, it’s hard to direct because, suddenly, you’re not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you’ve really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.’ – Danny Huston

‘I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn’t wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.’ – Mario Cantone

‘After school, I’d wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I’d be like, ‘I guess I’ll walk home.’ I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.’ – Whitney Cummings

‘I’ve been watching ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I can’t wait for ‘Bored to Death’ to come back, it’s one of my faves.’ – Michelle Forbes

‘When I first thought of the idea for ‘Sweet Valley High,’ I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from ‘Sleeping Beauty’-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided – and indeed it is.’ – Francine Pascal

‘I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don’t know how to interpret them, since I’m new to TV, so I’m just going to wait for somebody to tell me.’ – Oren Peli

‘I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they’re dressing like kids.’ – Paul Feig

‘I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I’m going to be excited to play for that team, and I can’t wait to see myself in ‘Madden’ on that team.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from… from… wait, what was I saying?’ – Bill Keller

‘Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations – mandatory ones – issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.’ – Russel Honore

‘To be honest, I can’t wait to be a dad. I really hope that that’s how the cookie crumbles for me.’ – Lucas Neff

‘Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn’t over, because I’d love to keep making weird plays. I can’t wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play ‘sit-com-y’ and tell me to stick to writing television.’ – Elizabeth Meriwether

‘I had just done a movie prior to ‘Employee of the Month’ called ‘Let’s Go to Prison’ and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn’t wait to get the chance ’til I played a bad guy.’ – Dax Shepard

‘I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can’t wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.’ – Cheryl Hines

‘If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.’ – Fran Tarkenton

‘You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming of more than 9 degrees F by 2100 – more than twice earlier projections.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn’t want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.’ – Tyne Daly

‘I’m half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house – so that’s like a very Latin staple. It’s just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can’t wait for my rice and beans and chicken.’ – Victoria Justice

‘I wish I could sit back and say, ‘Oh, I’m gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it’s called. But you just take what’s given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That’s my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.’ – Zach Galifianakis

‘I’ve dated girls and I always wait for that one right time to kiss. I don’t kiss on the first date, so I’ll take a girl out to dinners, and we’ll go bowling, and I make sure to charm them before I do it.’ – Kellan Lutz

‘My high school wasn’t a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn’t wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It’s really fun to see the girls at reunions now.’ – Cecily von Ziegesar

”Gossip Girl’ came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn’t wait for the next one.’ – Cecily von Ziegesar

‘What I’ve become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you’d rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself – if I’m not going be able to write, I’m not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.’ – Ron Rash

‘Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in ‘The Trusty’ was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.’ – Ron Rash

‘We’re incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it’s also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It’s a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.’ – Ben Lovett

‘I can’t wait to get on stage, because there you don’t worry about whether you’ll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you’ll ever have another boyfriend again, you don’t worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.’ – Florence Welch

‘If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you’re too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don’t actually quite know they want it. That’s what innovation’s about. With Plan A, we didn’t wait for the consumers to tell us.’ – Stuart Rose

‘So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I’m a bit more scared as a person. I don’t walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.’ – Petra Stunt

‘My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn’t really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.’ – Rumer Willis

‘I don’t necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.’ – Miranda Richardson

‘As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don’t really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.’ – Navid Negahban

‘Hope is for people who wait. And I don’t want to wait no more. I’m not scared anymore. I’m not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that’s music.’ – Concha Buika

‘Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they’ll often start flying off the handle. But I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, you’ve had those times in your life. Everybody has.” – Gilbert Hernandez

‘I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell – you know, I can’t wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.’ – Amy Hempel

‘I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we’re polite, we’re respectful, but at the end of the day we’re young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can’t enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.’ – Tinie Tempah

‘I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you’ve seen is just the tip of the creature’s tail.’ – Bong Joon-ho

‘People ask me if I live each day like it’s my last, and I don’t. I live each day like it’s my first, and I can’t wait for the next one.’ – Kris Carr

‘I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability – the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘I don’t sit around and wait for great parts. I’m an actress, and I love being one, and I’ll probably be doing it till I’m 72, standing around the back lot doing ‘Gunsmoke.” – Suzanne Pleshette

‘If I want to know how I’m doing at work, I don’t wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.’ – Chandra Wilson

‘Most of us are waiting. We’re waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we’re going to wait forever if we don’t do something more interesting with our lives.’ – Donald Miller

‘Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot,’ billed as ‘the laugh sensation of two continents,’ made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.’ – John Lahr

‘When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, ‘and I don’t want to read that in your magazine!’ In which case I wouldn’t use it. But if they didn’t remember to say it, I’d nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.’ – Simon Hoggart

‘Most of the time I don’t force records. I’m not one of these guys that put records out every nine, 10 months. I’m pretty long between records. I’ve only had a few in my career. I kind of wait until I feel I have really strong songs. I don’t know if they’re going to change the world or not, but I dig ’em, and if I dig ’em we make a record.’ – Jason McCoy

‘I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I’m really excited and can’t wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don’t know what’s coming next, and I really have to force it.’ – Louis Sachar

‘People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.’ – Salva Kiir Mayardit

‘There’s nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.’ – Kevin McCloud

‘All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘Don’t fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don’t go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don’t flow.’ – Kim Harrison

‘I can’t wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park – there’s so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.’ – Kara Lindsay

‘The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don’t ever change or wait too long to make changes… It’s very simple: Either things are performing or they’re not. And if it’s not performing, we have to make changes.’ – Tim Armstrong

‘A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.’ – Bob Keeshan

‘Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I’m extremely bored with parties.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That’s just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don’t wait until they’re dead.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator’s hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.’ – Lucy Larcom

‘My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.’ – Gavin Hood

‘I would love to do a musical. When I did ‘Fame L.A.’ for a year – all the singing, dancing and acting – I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn’t wait to get on the set.’ – Roselyn Sanchez

‘I’ve waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, ‘shut up.’ Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.’ – Steve Carell

‘When I was a kid, ‘Land of the Lost’ was my favorite show, just because it was – in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons – it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn’t wait. I loved it so much.’ – Will Ferrell

‘I don’t wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.’ – Cathy Marie Buchanan

‘Dogs have such short life spans, it’s like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.’ – Caroline Knapp

‘I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I’ve turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, ‘Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.” – Troy Garity

‘I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don’t wait until there’s a job opening – send him to me.’ – Kevin P. Ryan

‘American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.’ – Raoul Dufy

‘Regina Spektor is great. I can’t wait to see what more she’s capable of.’ – Ronnie Wood

‘It’s no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.’ – Nick Denton

‘There’s no bigger gaming franchise on the console than ‘Call of Duty’, and we can’t wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.’ – Emmett Shear

‘My beautiful son… I can’t wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.’ – Jencarlos Canela

‘There’s so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That’s my plan.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in – then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.’ – Lincoln Steffens

‘Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don’t watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that’s a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.’ – Alan Ball

‘Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don’t think I’ll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I’ll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I’ll write a novel. That’s the great thing about writing is that you don’t have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.’ – Alan Ball

‘The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.’ – Francis Fukuyama

‘I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you’ve got no control over it. I’m not one of those people who says, ‘I’ve got to write a song every day.’ I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I’m ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn’t any more. It’s just how it is.’ – Paul Weller

‘I’m pretty forgiving, so sometimes I forget how evil people were to me. Then I think, ‘Wait a minute. Don’t let them get you.’ Then I hit ‘ignore’ on FaceBook.’ – Alexis Knapp

‘I am in the position where I don’t have to work for the sake of working, so I’m very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.’ – Mila Kunis

‘Ethical is ‘I’ll wait and do what’s right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.” – John J. Mack

‘Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there’s sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually – when you call them up on the phone, they’ll say, ‘This is off the record,’ or, ‘This is on background,’ or they don’t even wait for you to say anything.’ – Lowell Bergman

‘It’s much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you’re a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.’ – Moby

‘The first thing I went out for was ‘The Sopranos’ and I got it, so that’s how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.’ – Vanessa Ferlito

‘My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn’t wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.’ – Joe Perry

‘I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don’t know if it’s because I’m versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can’t wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.’ – Marina and the Diamonds

‘Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you’ll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra – you can cut off its head in the Germany of the ’30s and ’40s, but it’ll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.’ – Alan Moore

‘One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?” – Trent Reznor

‘It’s one thing to sit back and say, ‘Hey let’s play a club, that will be great,’ but then you get there and say, ‘Hey wait, this is the dressing room? Where’s my dressing room?” – Trent Reznor

‘I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn’t wait to get back to Ardmore.’ – Olivia Wilde

‘I always thought when I hit 50 years old that’d be it for the travel. I don’t have to tell you – you wait at an airport, your flight’s delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.’ – Brian Setzer

‘We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can’t wait until a person is 18 years old and say, ‘Now you have the right’. You have to start that from the gate.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into ‘Second City.’ When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at ‘Second City.’ And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.’ – Steve Carell

‘If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, don’t laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if that’s funny, then you laugh. If it’s not, you don’t laugh – or at very worst, you can leave quietly.’ – Gilbert Gottfried

‘A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, ‘Wait a minute. This apartment doesn’t have a ceiling.’ The landlord answers, ‘That’s OK. The people upstairs don’t walk around that much.” – Gilbert Gottfried

‘I am very honored and excited to be part of UFC 100; it’s going to be the hardest challenge of my career so far and it’s going to be pretty tough – I can’t wait.’ – Georges St-Pierre

‘Life is too short to be doing work that doesn’t make you feel happy and fulfilled. I’d rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.’ – Amanda Crew

‘When you lose a game or don’t play well you can’t wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.’ – Ryan Giggs

‘I don’t know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I’d like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn’t wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.’ – Bryan Greenberg

‘Everybody always talks about how they can’t wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I’m like, ‘I want to be with Mom!’ I have it good.’ – Carly Schroeder

‘I can’t wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with. And I’m lucky enough to be in a position where I can wait six months for a project that really interests me.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘The problem with most children’s hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.’ – Irwin Redlener

‘Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don’t wait too long to have children.’ – Janine di Giovanni

‘I don’t write on demand – I wait for inspiration to come.’ – Jill Scott

‘I’ve done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair… I would do kid’s parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.’ – Diora Baird

‘I’ve learned to wait ’til an idea is worth making. That’s not really a lesson I’ve learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there’s no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.’ – H. Jon Benjamin

‘I’m very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I’ve also been careful. I don’t just take anything. ‘Durham County’ came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and ‘Durham’ set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested.’ – Hugh Dillon

‘Acting – I’m good at it, but it’s not my passion. Music, I’m not as good at, but that’s my passion. I think I’m just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.’ – Israel Broussard

‘There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.’ – Nathan Wolfe

‘To have a romance, you have to have time. I’m a justice. I’ve written a book. The guy’s gonna have to wait until I’m a little bit freer.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘I’m gonna wait for Mr. Right to come along and take my time. I’m just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it’s not that I’m not taking applications.’ – Vivica A. Fox

‘I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.’ – Maika Monroe

‘I can’t wait to use a BabyBjoern. I’m in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo.’ – Marisol Nichols

‘I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.’ – Pope Francis

‘I think it’s important not to grow up too fast. I’m 26 now, and I still can’t wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn’t buried too deeply in me.’ – Laura Haddock

‘You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you’re like, ‘Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I’d want to be a director.” – Emily Meade

‘The only time I’ve tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that’s what I do.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘Being asked to play ‘The Doctor’ is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can’t wait to get started.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘Two days before I got the audition for ‘Extras,’ I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, ‘No, wait and see what else comes in.’ Lo and behold, along came ‘Extras.’ Now that was lucky!’ – Ashley Jensen

‘Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can’t wait for it to be more than 50%.’ – Anne M. Mulcahy

‘I was a hyper kid, so I didn’t want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.’ – Shane Larkin

‘My kids always say to me, ‘Can we watch TV?’ I say, ‘Absolutely!’ because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, ‘But can you watch with us?’ My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV’s that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.’ – Natascha McElhone

‘I don’t buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They’re basically stealing someone’s image in order to make money for themselves… They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘I recently have gotten into juicing as an in-between-meals snack. I think the more vegetable ingredients the better, especially if they are green. I find that a good juice can really curb my appetite when I need to wait for the next meal.’ – Noureen DeWulf

‘They couldn’t wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.’ – Justine Bateman

‘I can’t wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It’s about the capabilities of the people you’re working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there’s no shame in that; they’re actors, not writers.’ – Lynn Shelton

‘It’s so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I’m being optimistic. And when ‘Leverage’ comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can’t really sit and wait for things to come to you.’ – Beth Riesgraf

‘When I was 18, I couldn’t wait to move away. I was like: ‘If I ever have to come back here, I’ll kill myself.’ Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.’ – Laura Fraser

‘I always say that you don’t have to like ‘The Room’, but you will discover something – maybe a tiny little thing – and say, ‘Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.” – Tommy Wiseau

‘I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.’ – Alber Elbaz

‘There’s this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it’s okay.’ – Tom Sturridge

‘I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That’s what it’s all about, is winning. I’m a competitor… People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can’t wait to shut that down. I’m a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.’ – Shabazz Muhammad

‘Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.’ – Herschel Walker

‘I am never happier than when I am on set and getting to act. And I can’t wait for what is yet to come.’ – Bitsie Tulloch

‘For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That’s probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I’m midway through a book before it happens. However, I don’t wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I’m not delivering lambs on the farm.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, ‘Oh that was great!’ and I’d be like, ‘Wait, it’s not done!” – Madison Davenport

‘So much in L.A. is waiting. It’s so irritating. That’s what’s good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don’t have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I’d mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.’ – George R. R. Martin

‘The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn’t wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don’t want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.’ – Anna Netrebko

‘The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.’ – Sal Albanese

‘We can’t wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.’ – Howard Schultz

‘I think I’m the only singer who doesn’t have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.’ – Sunidhi Chauhan

‘I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn’t wait to go off on my own.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘I’ve been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren’t that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it’s not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘I’m a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I’m disciplined, but I’m not patient.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Nobody in college races home and says, ‘I can’t wait to see the news! I can’t wait to see who CBS is going to hire!” – Lewis Black

‘The reason I’m an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn’t wait for the Powerbook.’ – Penn Jillette

‘The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, ‘Wait, I think I’ve written that before.” – Robert Smith

‘I always think if it’s a good story, the audience can’t wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.’ – Christa B. Allen

‘I’m Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!’ – Valerie Cruz

‘Movies require a lot of patience. I like instant results. If I have done something that’s not funny at all, the audience will let me know in two seconds. With the movie, I will have to wait nine months to know if I was that bad.’ – Vir Das

‘While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.’ – Colm Toibin

‘I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything – I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.’ – Allan McNish

‘I couldn’t wait to get on the ice. I couldn’t wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn’t wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.’ – Bobby Orr

‘I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they’re playing, and they’re teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can’t wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.’ – Jessica Valenti

‘I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines – also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.’ – Phil Robertson

‘I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn’t get made I was aghast. ‘Wait a minute, that’s not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!” – Scott Aukerman

‘If I’m going to go out to be a solo artist, it’s because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else’s schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people’s prejudices. I’d be kind of stupid not to exercise that.’ – Chris Cornell

‘I’ve always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn’t wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton’s wedding.’ – Meghan Markle

‘Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can’t talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.’ – Kirk Douglas

‘Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we’re living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to – the material demands it.’ – William Gibson

‘This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.’ – Ursula Burns

‘Once you have speech, you don’t have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don’t like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I’m thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can’t wait to welcome my son.’ – Mara Brock Akil

‘I don’t want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It’s instant feedback. It’s like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, ‘It sucks.” – Jimmy Fallon

‘I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff’s going to be dragged up and, you know, I’ll be like, ‘Wait, what?” – Jimmy Fallon

‘I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don’t have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say ‘action.” – Jill Scott

”Frida’ was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn’t wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.’ – Salma Hayek

‘I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought ‘I can’t wait for the future when the special effects are good’ to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.’ – Matt Groening

‘I can’t wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert ‘Terminator 2′ to 3D more than I want anything in the world.’ – Evan Goldberg

‘Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America’s students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and ‘Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.” – Adora Svitak

‘By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.’ – Adora Svitak

‘I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. ‘Ghost’ was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I’m black? Oh, am I black?’ – Whoopi Goldberg

‘I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn’t matter to a certain segment of the populace.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

‘I like to play around with people who don’t know me. Often I’m talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, ‘Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?’ They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, ‘You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.” – Marlee Matlin

‘My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I’d reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he’d tell me to wait on the shoulder. I’d see him coming through the barrel, and he’d just scream at me to go. I’d drop in, and he’d give me a hoot from behind – I’ve always loved it.’ – Xavier Rudd

‘Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.’ – John Lasseter

‘Without a doubt, I’d love to do Broadway. I actually can’t wait to get back to musical theater.’ – Zac Efron

‘I can’t wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don’t have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.’ – Kevin Garnett

‘There’s still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there’s the other side that says, ‘Let’s just wait a minute and see what happens.’ That’s intuition, and it comes with age and experience.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you’ll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.’ – Suze Orman

‘I’m not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about ‘Oh, let’s exchange numbers’ and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don’t see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.’ – Heidi Klum

‘Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.’ – Kat Edmonson

‘My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I’m searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it’s always visual.’ – Ellsworth Kelly

‘I sometimes don’t try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction – and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, ‘Oh my God – that’s it!” – Ellsworth Kelly

‘We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can’t wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.’ – Kym Whitley

‘I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it’s a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I’m writing them.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘My heart’s in stage. Making ‘Quadrophenia’ was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But ‘hurry up and wait’ is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.’ – Phil Daniels

‘Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it’s more like you wait for the piece.’ – Ian Frazier

‘Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.’ – Waris Ahluwalia

‘Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, ‘Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.’ And at that step, I would say, ‘Well, wait a minute. Just because it’s a complicated problem doesn’t mean the best course of action immediately is one that’s complicated.” – Lars Peter Hansen

‘If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.’ – Jessica Hart

‘It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting ‘Black Nativity,’ and billboards in Los Angeles. It’s overwhelming. I can’t wait for everybody to see what I got.’ – Jacob Latimore

‘It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.’ – Patrick Soon-Shiong

‘Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don’t wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not ‘wait’ for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube. The tide has turned.’ – John Ridley

‘Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.’ – Michio Kaku

‘There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn’t have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!’ – Monica Johnson

‘Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.’ – Cathleen Schine

‘Please don’t think that I am one of those squishy types who can’t handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.’ – Henry Rollins

”SMiLE’ is perhaps the Beach Boys’ most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That’s a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson’s masterpiece.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Some people ask why we don’t just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes can’t get to the end story without going through this process… When a story is up and posted, it’s amazing how many people come out of the woodwork to give us additional information… And readers love it.’ – Michael Arrington

‘There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.’ – Mark Barrowcliffe

‘Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you’ve done. Actions speak louder than words.’ – Steve-O

‘I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.’ – Bahman Ghobadi

‘According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.’ – Bill Gates

‘In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it’s about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it’s going to be about me, and I shan’t care what anyone else thinks. I can’t wait!’ – Jasmine Guinness

‘My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can’t wait.’ – Jasmine Guinness

‘If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.’ – Laurie Helgoe

‘I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.’ – Jackie Walorski

‘I’m not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘I couldn’t wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.’ – John Oates

‘I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn’t be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I’m not so sure he was.’ – Rory Stewart

‘I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut’s, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O’Neill’s on Queen Street.’ – Colin Morgan

‘Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning… it’s a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.’ – Malaika Arora Khan

‘I can’t wait to have kids one day. Yeah. Definitely. That’s the ultimate goal in life, for myself. I think that’s the ultimate blessing.’ – Eve

‘Writers want to talk. They can’t wait to tell you what they’ve been thinking. And because they’ve been in solitude, they’ve had some fairly decent thoughts.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.’ – Boo Weekley

‘Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics – killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.’ – Dean Wareham

‘Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there’s anybody impatient here, I am that individual.’ – Eric Shinseki

‘I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn’t want to be away for six months of the year. I’ve never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can’t say to my wife, ‘I’m going to wait by a pool for six months.” – Eddie Marsan

‘I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.’ – Kris Kristofferson

‘I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‘Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.’ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn’t stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.’ – Lindsey Vonn

‘The Project Angel Food Program’s mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘There’s nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right then and there. That relationship is established in 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds, they’ll let you know whether they like you or not.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you’re thinking: ‘Wait till you hear this.” – Kenneth Cranham

‘Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don’t wait for anyone to praise you.’ – Jack Canfield

‘In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians have to believe something quite similar about the Jews.’ – David Novak

‘Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.’ – Kyrsten Sinema

‘I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn’t like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.’ – Yolanda Adams

‘Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it’s over.’ – Nicole Holofcener

‘I just do these ‘Sleep’ type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I’m really tired or something. Gotta come natural.’ – Aaron Funk

‘I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.’ – Bernie Mac

‘Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘It’s always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, ‘I don’t need any more money. I’m good.’ Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you’re crazy when you say you don’t need any more money. Who says that?’ – Dr. Dre

‘I don’t think, post 9/11, we’re going to wait for real obvious things like Country A attacking Country B – because Country A doesn’t attack Country B any more.’ – Thomas P.M. Barnett

‘There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks: you can’t wait to get out of there. They both function as airports, but it’s the things that you can’t measure that make them different.’ – Norman Foster

‘The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for ‘perfect’ is going to be a mistake.’ – Jason Segel

‘The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called ‘Wait Until Dark.’ Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, ‘That’s my son!’ At Radio City Music Hall in New York!’ – Alan Arkin

‘Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women’s earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.’ – Jackie Speier

‘Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions – I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you’re not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.’ – Laura Lang

‘Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.’ – Cynthia Ozick

‘In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.’ – Stephen Rodrick

‘I’ve seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they’re not ready for you, some people don’t like that.’ – Paul Dano

‘In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.’ – Peter Singer

‘I like the Dodgers because my dad does – wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.’ – Mamie Gummer

‘If I do have kids, I can’t wait because I’m excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it’s about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.’ – Mamie Gummer

‘Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut – no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase – of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.’ – Timothy Noah

‘I know plenty people, and I’ve done it myself, where you lock yourself inside for four days and you a watch a whole series. It’s like watching a never-ending movie. It’s great not to have to wait for the next season or the next week.’ – Jane Levy

‘I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America.’ – Jose Andres

‘Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, ‘I want to do standup in 30 minutes,’ and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, ‘I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.” – Hannibal Buress

‘Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I’m incredibly happy with the results. ‘Everything To Me’ is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can’t wait for people to hear it!’ – Shane Filan

‘The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.’ – Thomas Friedman

‘After filming, I can’t wait to shake off all that ’50s primness. I’ll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go – it’s dead important.’ – Jessica Raine

‘I’d love to do films, but I’d feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I’m really passionate about, even if I don’t work for a year.’ – Jessica Raine

‘I would never watch ‘Lost’ on TV; I’d just wait until I could get at least five or six episodes in a row. Saved myself a lot of anxiety that way.’ – Brandon Jay McLaren

‘I feel that I don’t have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I’m keen to work with them, which is pretty great.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘I’m so pumped about joining ‘Y&R’ – I watch it all the time and can’t wait to get in there and get my hands dirty!’ – Justin Hartley

‘For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor’s graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects… do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!’ – Tamala Jones

‘I can’t wait for everyone to read ‘Don’t Look Back.’ It’s something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I’m very excited to be sharing the book, finally.’ – Jennifer Armentrout

‘Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can’t wait to put on when the weather starts to turn.’ – Amber Le Bon

‘Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater… and say, ‘Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.’ And then they get here and say, ‘Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!’ It’s not just show up one day and do it. It’s show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.’ – Billy Porter

‘I can’t wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, ‘I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.” – Jim Rash

‘Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.’ – Doris Kearns Goodwin

‘I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.’ – Delphine Arnault

‘It’s an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn’t mind hurting his credit score.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘I just have a way about me where people know that they don’t tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.’ – Estelle

‘I think it’s kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.’ – Julian Ovenden

‘At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that doesn’t come. I had to start recording rough song ideas before going to the studio. I did that at home whenever I had a good idea.’ – Apparat

‘You can’t wait for someone to give you a show. That can’t be the first time you’re writing and drawing a character.’ – Rebecca Sugar

‘There’s always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don’t go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.’ – Gary Sinise

‘I don’t want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.’ – Bryant Gumbel

‘I see my sister, and she’s on her second baby, and I’m like, ‘That’s success.’ Having a family – I can’t wait for that.’ – Adrienne Bailon

‘Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, ‘Wait a minute. He’s not allowed to make mistakes,’ – my mind.’ – George Benson

‘You can’t open anything after your 50. You have to wait ’til people stop by the house. ‘Oh my God, I’m glad you’re here.” – Louie Anderson

‘I don’t think I’m an entertainer. I never think, ‘Wow, I can’t wait to get the crowd moving.’ Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.’ – Ric Ocasek

‘You can’t wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.’ – Stephanie Zimbalist

‘An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.’ – John Updike

‘Early on, someone had told me, ‘You know, the camera can always tell when you’re lying.’ And, Jesus, that intimidated me. ‘The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?’ Until one day I thought, ‘Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.” – Michael Douglas

‘My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.’ – Ndamukong Suh

‘I’m sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can’t wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind.’ – Ernie Els

‘You don’t need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don’t need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.’ – Nick Turse