Waiting Quotes

‘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

‘We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.’ – Joseph Campbell

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

‘Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.’ – Saint Augustine

‘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

‘Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.’ – Morris West

‘Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘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

‘The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.’ – Amy Winehouse

‘I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.’ – J. B. Priestley

‘We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.’ – E. M. Forster

‘Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.’ – Jules Renard

‘This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young – young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.’ – Clara Barton

‘When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.’ – Sally Ride

‘When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.’ – George Harrison

‘Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.’ – Sharon Begley

‘It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.’ – Elizabeth Taylor

‘Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.’ – Billy Graham

‘Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘You don’t stumble upon your heritage. It’s there, just waiting to be explored and shared.’ – Robbie Robertson

‘The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.’ – Eden Phillpotts

‘There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.’ – Simon Sinek

‘Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.’ – Mae West

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

‘The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.’ – Dave Barry

‘Mars is there, waiting to be reached.’ – Buzz Aldrin

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

‘I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘I actually gained a lot of weight when I started to do ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ Doing eight theater shows a week, girl, is such a workout. But with TV, you’re, like, sitting in your trailer waiting to go to the set. And there’s catering and craft service every place you look.’ – Sara Ramirez

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

‘I’m an early riser. I work out really hard. I push myself; I get my job done, and at the end of the day, there’s a Guinness waiting for me.’ – Jason Momoa

‘I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.’ – Bob Hope

‘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

‘The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch ‘Titanic,’ and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.’ – Bill Hader

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

‘Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.’ – Jamie Dimon

‘Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘When you spend a lot of time, like I do, just standing around and waiting, or being moved from place to place, every minute gets consumed by something someone else has set up for you. And it’s not like I’m always in a beautiful place wearing something gorgeous.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they’re gonna jump on it…. There’s gonna be haters.’ – Justin Bieber

‘The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.’ – Melody Beattie

‘A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.’ – Steven Brust

‘I like Aurora, ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.’ – Ariana Grande

‘All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.’ – John Wayne

‘You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There’s a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that’s just begun.’ – James Weldon Johnson

‘I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then – I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn’t, luckily, have to bother about that.’ – Agatha Christie

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

‘Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.’ – Ayn Rand

‘There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.’ – Kat Graham

‘If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.’ – Kate DiCamillo

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

‘You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.’ – A. A. Milne

‘The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.’ – Terence McKenna

‘Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we’d sit around at night while waiting for a shot.’ – Bill Paxton

‘There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.’ – Alan Clark

‘Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.’ – Matthew Arnold

‘On climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.’ – Kofi Annan

‘Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.’ – R. L. Stine

‘I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef’s salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn’t have any fear. I thought, ‘This is easy. This is what I’ve been waiting for’. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.’ – George Foreman

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

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

‘When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.’ – Michael Frayn

‘The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘There’s two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.’ – Darius Rucker

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

‘For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone’s design.’ – Jonathan Schell

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

‘I’m waiting to get old – I think old guys with tattoos look good.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.’ – Winston Churchill

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

‘In this digital age, it doesn’t really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.’ – Richard Branson

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

‘Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.’ – Jack Kevorkian

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

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

‘I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan

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

‘I’m a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.’ – Sean Young

‘Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.’ – Jean Houston

‘I think I veered towards filmmaking because there’s more of a sense of control in it. You’re not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler

‘If you’re a waiter and you’re waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.’ – Kelly Ripa

‘Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don’t really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it’s not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it’s going to make you feel amazing.’ – Daveed Diggs

‘I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.’ – Salma Hayek

‘When television came along, I’d already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring – and it didn’t.’ – Orson Welles

‘Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.’ – Don Marquis

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

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

‘In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.’ – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

‘Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘I am still waiting for the day that they say, ‘Time’s up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.” – Benny Blanco

‘I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I’ve had three cracks at a world title – in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn’t really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it’s third time lucky.’ – Allan McNish

‘Patience is something that, as a young man, I didn’t have – when waiting for parts to arrive or waiting for people to behave as I wanted them to.’ – Cillian Murphy

‘Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn’t be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn’t a life plan.’ – Karen Finerman

‘I think everybody has somebody for them, and they’re out there waiting for you somewhere.’ – Brett Eldredge

‘My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for ‘The Nutcracker’ to end.’ – Timothee Chalamet

‘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

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

‘We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.’ – Malachy McCourt

‘My theory is, you never know when you are going to end up in a hospital waiting room.’ – Jacob Elordi

‘There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I’d even paid a penny of tax.’ – Angela Rayner

‘In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room… There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.’ – Rosa Parks

‘Going onstage – that’s my joy. You know like when you’re in school and you’re just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That’s me in life.’ – Burna Boy

‘I’ve tried to choose roles where women are not just reacting or waiting for something to happen.’ – Ana de Armas

‘God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.’ – Mary Gordon

‘A vision is like an oasis in a desert. You can’t have it all the time, as you need to keep on continuing your journey through the desert of life experiences, full of faith trials… I am not so concerned about waiting for a vision to appear because I know it will come to me when I least expect it… I still do have visions that inspire my work.’ – Akiane Kramarik

‘It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.’ – Baltasar Gracian

”Oh, Daddy,’ was a remake of the Ritchie Valens’ song ‘Oh Donna,’ and I really like that one because it’s a story of a pregnant woman who was dumped by her baby daddy, but she was always waiting for him. It’s a sweet-and-sour situation.’ – Natti Natasha

‘There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.’ – Helen Reddy

‘Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it’s wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they’re waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you’re in trouble. Just do what you love. That’s all I want to do.’ – Gene Wilder

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

‘While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.’ – Alex Hirsch

‘Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.’ – Richard Bach

‘Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one’s conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘Waiting makes me restless. When I’m ready, I’m ready.’ – Reba McEntire

‘Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.’ – Michael Sheen

‘We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.’ – Malcolm de Chazal

‘Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘When you’re younger, sometimes you don’t know that it’s your responsibility not to leave a person waiting. You don’t answer their texts, you can’t respond, that’s disrespect.’ – Rev. Run

‘From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.’ – Bette Davis

‘I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I’m waiting for it to stop, and the team’s manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he’s already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, ‘If you screw this up, they will boo you.’ And I said ‘Thanks.” – Julia Stiles

‘Without the Fender bass, there’d be no rock n’ roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting ’round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.’ – Quincy Jones

‘My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?’ – Steve Wynn

‘Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.’ – Kim Fields

‘Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women – the man’s 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman’s 50 percent was to do everything else.’ – W. Bruce Cameron

‘I didn’t know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.’ – Richard Brautigan

‘When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home… piece of cake.’ – James Marsters

‘Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it’s easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you’re waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you’re like, ‘This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ in high school.” – Jonathan Groff

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

‘From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don’t know that I would have been so motivated.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.’ – Kristin Hannah

‘On No Doubt’s second visit to Paisley Park, sometime around 1999, we were working on a song with Prince called Waiting Room,’ which would later be released on our Rock Steady album.’ – Tony Kanal

‘Mathura railway station should be a blend of heritage look with modernisation like escalator and better waiting rooms for general class passengers. Instead of taking rest on the ground, the passengers in general waiting rooms should be provided benches.’ – Hema Malini

‘The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘If you’re impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you’re doing ‘Bus waiting meditation.’ If you’re standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you’re doing ‘Waiting in line meditation.’ Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.’ – Gretchen Rubin

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

‘I’m tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don’t mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It’s like age. It’s never bothered me. I’ve even forgot my birthday. Many times I’ve wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it’s an honor, to be doing what I’m doing now at my age.’ – Harry Dean Stanton

‘When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.’ – Frederick Banting

‘Every time you do a take on a movie, you’re not sure if it’s going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you’re kind of waiting for the release. ‘Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!’ There’s always the possibility that it’s just not going to work.’ – Wes Anderson

‘You’ve got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.’ – Mike Rowe

‘If you acquiesce to one interview, there’s always another waiting in the wings. Also if you’re interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don’t like to do that.’ – Robert Smith

‘Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.’ – Marianne Williamson

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

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

‘Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn’t have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That’s why I decided to start Amber House Books.’ – Teresa Medeiros

‘The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord’s promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.’ – Charles Stanley

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

‘For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited.’ – Mick Hucknall

‘Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it’s not yours anymore. It’s laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.’ – Ville Valo

‘A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back – but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘When you’re standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you’re standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don’t. I feel like I’m the enemy.’ – John McAfee

‘In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they’re waiting for you to make a mistake.’ – Brian May

‘Whenever I wasn’t in school with a tutor three hours a day, I’d get a knock and be rushed to set and they’d be waiting and I’d film my thing and then I’d go back to school again.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you’ve put your faith in, that that’s what ‘s waiting for you. I think that’d be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.’ – Joe Carnahan

‘James Caan told me at the end of filming ‘Elf’ that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny – and I never was.’ – Will Ferrell

‘Anybody who tells me theyre not going to pay tax weve got an NHS system on its knees I tell you what, my son was in real trouble when he was young and we took him to the hospital, there were four specialists waiting for him. Thats why you pay your taxes.’ – Robson Green

‘Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn’t theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.’ – Zac Goldsmith

‘I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don’t know about the three-month radio tours and if I’ll be interested in that. I haven’t figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.’ – Jewel

‘When I was Belle, I was at the bottom of the high-school food chain. I was a freshman theater student. I was the antithesis of popular high-school student, literally hiding in this corner waiting to go onstage because I was so scared.’ – Rachel Zegler

‘As an actor, there is so little freedom to choose. You can keep waiting for aeons to get the right role. It may never come! It is better to keep working and then you get more work.’ – Anoop Menon

‘I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but while you’re sitting around waiting you can walk in that hallway where you look at the cars going through the window, and that could be changing exhibitions.’ – Kenny Scharf

‘I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.’ – Barack Obama

‘I love musicals, but I find it’s just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There’s hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that’s as far away from real performance as you can get.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting – politely – to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn’t it?’ – Sallie Krawcheck

‘You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘Ever since reading Jean Plaidy’s ‘Queen in Waiting,’ I’ve felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.’ – Lauren Willig

‘At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there’s so many stories out there waiting to be told. It’s just a matter of who’s out there listening.’ – Jose Antonio Vargas

‘It’s odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘Waiting is so unusual that many of us can’t stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.’ – Julian Baggini

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

‘Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers.’ – Richard Eyre

‘To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.’ – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

‘I feel like it’s harder because everyone knows I’m the three-time world champion – it’s almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.’ – Simone Biles

‘In filming, you’re waiting – you’re waiting for lights, you’re waiting for people to set things up – and when you’re not waiting, you’re repeating.’ – Colin Firth

‘I don’t want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song.’ – Mac Miller

‘I once walked out of a nightclub with my team-mates to see our star midfielder reclining across the bonnet of a Ferrari, arms folded, waiting for girls to come out so he could wink at them and then progress it from there. I have no idea how long he’d been waiting. I do know it wasn’t even his Ferrari.’ – Peter Crouch

‘I sang in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ and I sang in ‘A Mighty Wind.’ I can carry a tune, but I don’t like that Broadway singing.’ – Parker Posey

‘When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.’ – Winona Ryder

‘I’m 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can’t stay home waiting for something different. I think it’s a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.’ – Bea Arthur

‘I had a great time making the last movie, ‘Eclipse.’ We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930’s. But I was waiting for ‘Breaking Dawn’ because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.’ – Nikki Reed

‘I don’t like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don’t like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.’ – Steve Waugh

‘Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.’ – Edward de Bono

‘I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.’ – Joe Biden

‘You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it’s like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they’re in a funeral-parlor waiting room.’ – Jim Harrison

‘I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.’ – Federico Fellini

‘My mom used to tell me when I was little, ‘When it rains, it’s God’s manifestation – a big day’s waiting to happen.” – Gabby Douglas

‘The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.’ – Salman Khurshid

‘I don’t believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.’ – George Eastman

‘I remember being in North Dakota and meeting women who stayed in bed and watched ‘Law & Order: SVU’ all day, waiting for their boyfriends or husbands to get back from their shifts, or who couldn’t go out at night because they felt like it was dangerous for them.’ – Nia DaCosta

‘I’m waiting for them to make ‘Thundercats’. I would love to be Cheetara.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘I have the cliche ‘struggling actor’ story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn’t work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.’ – Pedro Pascal

‘The thing with making your art your business is: It’s a business. You can’t sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you’re in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, ‘OK. I can write from 4 to 6.’ So you write.’ – Noah Hawley

‘Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.’ – Wanda Sykes

‘If you find yourself waiting for the weekend to approach, then it means that you are not happy for at least five days a week.’ – Rakshit Shetty

‘Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘I hate sitting around and waiting; that’s why I always have an editing suite on set.’ – Til Schweiger

‘I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large segment of the working-class Republican base. And no one had done it until Donald Trump. I very clearly saw a void, and I knew somebody would fill it. And the moment I knew he had filled it, I knew he would win the nomination.’ – J. D. Vance

‘The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.’ – Louis Freeh

‘Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.’ – Alberto Tomba

‘I remember when I was 13 and telling people I wanted to be an actor, and being met with, ‘Have fun waiting tables,’ so I figured maybe that’s not such a great idea after all.’ – Alden Ehrenreich

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

‘My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you’re open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along.’ – Lily Collins

‘As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything’s just swell.’ – Tiny Tim

‘New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

‘Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.’ – Don Marquis

‘Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.’ – Booth Tarkington

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

‘Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I’d race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.’ – Josh Groban

‘Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That’s absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.’ – Louis L’Amour

‘I want to do things – scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I’m an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.’ – Teri Polo

‘Well ‘Monday Night Football,’ I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it’s a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it’s a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you’re a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It’s different than when you play at noon.’ – Bud Grant

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

‘I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn’t grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.’ – Isabel Allende

‘I know that you’re better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.’ – Michael Winslow

‘I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.’ – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

‘Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately – to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions – is often overpowering.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.’ – Cao Yu

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

‘There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘You don’t waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.’ – Reba McEntire

‘In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God’s grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.’ – Thomas Becket

‘When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I don’t have a lot of stomach for people who don’t show up to a set knowing their lines because you’re keeping 150 people waiting.’ – Julianna Margulies

‘I know it sounds like I’m playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they’re not waiting at home. I wear the pants.’ – Ana de Armas

‘As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘It’s better to take the good that comes your way instead of sitting around and waiting.’ – Nikita Dutta

‘One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film. People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl, and I say, ‘No, I want to be the villain.’ I’m waiting for that call!’ – Jessica Chastain

‘Nobody… took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.’ – Gertrude B. Elion

‘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

‘Delegate to others who have strengths where you don’t. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that’s courage in action.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.’ – Siddhartha Mukherjee

‘Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.’ – Al Davis

‘The best pop songs are the ones that show that person’s personality. It’s harder to do those singles because the stars, moon and sun have to align and the audience have to be ready, but it’s worth waiting for it.’ – MO

‘As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!’ – Jules Verne

‘Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It’s like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘If you wanna make money in music, you’re better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there’s somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.’ – Chris Cornell

‘I’m very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don’t break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.’ – Amy Sedaris

‘Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.’ – Ernest Newman

‘So I’m just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.’ – John Perry Barlow

‘Making movies is time-consuming and it’s boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It’s like a big machine that moves slowly.’ – Eddie Murphy

‘Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn’t have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that’s just not the way I work right now.’ – David Lindsay-Abaire

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

‘Particularly when you’re making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives – you know?’ – Joel Edgerton

‘I’m always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I’m a chatty guy.’ – Darren Criss

‘I remember when I was about 18, Sean Penn made a bet with me. He had just directed his first movie, and he’s like, ‘By the time you’re 30, I will bet you $500 that you’ll be sick of acting.’ I’m still waiting to collect, because I’m not.’ – Winona Ryder

‘So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, ‘Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?’ I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.’ – Vinny Guadagnino

‘I am patiently waiting for the singularity.’ – Harper Reed

‘If the Palestinians will one day decide to wake up and join a diplomatic process that is being carried out with the support of countries in the region, with international support – welcome. But I’m not waiting.’ – Benny Gantz

‘Outside my house in Delhi, you will find at least 10 guys waiting to catch a glimpse of me.’ – Raftaar

‘Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.’ – Don DeLillo

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

‘I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don’t have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you’re good enough. It’s just your audience.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.’ – Hope Jahren

‘Apple doesn’t need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.’ – Virginia Postrel

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

‘The narrative of ‘man the hunter’ presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through the hunt, and that women were just sitting by the fire waiting for evolution to drag them out by the hair in the 1960s in order to participate.’ – Amanda Foreman

‘It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘In terms of the timeline, ‘The Force Awakens’ came out in December of 2015. I got the role in November of 2015. I was auditioning and waiting to hear back when their marketing machine was everywhere. It’s like you’re going for something that’s so high stakes, and you try to remind yourself, ‘Okay, stop thinking about it,’ and it’s everywhere.’ – Kelly Marie Tran

‘I’ve been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.’ – Luther Allison

‘It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.’ – Al Pacino

‘I feel like I’m the luckiest person alive. I’m always waiting for that phone call: ‘Hello. We’ve just realized you’re really a no-talent hillbilly. We’ve made a horrible mistake and we’d like you to leave now.” – Lance Burton

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

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

‘My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.’ – James Dobson

‘My kids are just waiting for me at home. I’m their father. They’re wondering, ‘When’s Daddy coming home?” – Brad Pitt

‘If you’re an actor, even a successful one, you’re still waiting for the phone to ring.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like ‘Man of Tai Chi’ just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I’m looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don’t want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘When my daughter was born, I said: ‘I feel like I know what I’ve been waiting my whole life to be.” – Corey Johnson

‘You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, ‘What am I waiting for?’ Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life.’ – Connie Britton

‘They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘I’m not beholden to anyone. I’m not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.’ – James May

‘In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it’s important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.’ – Calvin Harris

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

‘In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more – no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.’ – John Hickenlooper

‘Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success – because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that’s disguised as failure.’ – Naveen Jain

‘Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you’re the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.’ – Walter Kirn

‘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

‘I remember when I was at the first showing of ‘John Dies at the End’ at Sundance, and I was talking to some of the people in the standby crowd who were outside and didn’t have tickets. They were just waiting in line to see if they could get in. It was this whole gang of die-hard sci-fi wacko people, and they were just fantastic.’ – Paul Giamatti

‘Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.’ – John Barrasso

‘Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable.’ – Hope Jahren

‘One of the things I’ve been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down.’ – Misty Copeland

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

‘My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.’ – Alan Brien

‘Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.’ – Mother Maribel

‘I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.’ – Jane Fonda

‘I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.’ – Lucy Lawless

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

‘People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they – at least the ones that I know personally – have been waiting for something that doesn’t completely insult them.’ – Winona Ryder

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

‘The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.’ – Percy Ross

‘I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.’ – John Mason Brown

‘Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.’ – Bill Frist

‘I believe in love, but I don’t sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.’ – Renee Zellweger

‘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

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

‘But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole.’ – Sally Field

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

‘Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.’ – Hun Sen

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

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

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

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

‘I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.’ – Ben Kingsley

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

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

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

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

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

‘But when it really happens I’m very fascinated, I’m waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?’ – Nastassja Kinski

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

‘I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.’ – Spalding Gray

‘The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.’ – Sarah Brady

‘The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘That’s true, you don’t want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who’ve been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don’t want to disappoint.’ – Rebecca Romijn

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

‘We’re waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.’ – Don Bluth

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

‘I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.’ – Richard Jewell

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

‘This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn’t play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It’s now my second home.’ – Jim Capaldi

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

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

‘When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.’ – John Crowe Ransom

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

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

‘As of right now, I’m still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.’ – Brian Austin Green

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

‘Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.’ – Michael Kinsley

‘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

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

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

‘There’s a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.’ – Graeme Murphy

‘Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I’m waiting for that one satisfying role.’ – Jeremy London

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

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

‘Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they’ve been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!’ – Sid Meier

‘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

‘To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.’ – Kathie Lee Gifford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘People are always waiting to be discovered.’ – Jonathan Carroll

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

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

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

‘The Indian race are waiting and praying.’ – Chief Joseph

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

‘I’m one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I’m waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.’ – Francesca Annis

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

‘But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?’ – William Scranton

‘Making a movie is a long, dull process. There’s a lot of waiting around.’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

‘So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.’ – Lisa Guerrero

‘People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone – but that’s a price you pay.’ – Samantha Mumba

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

‘You know, I’m not making top dollar, but when you’re making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.’ – Esai Morales

‘Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I’ve been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.’ – Camryn Manheim

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

‘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

‘I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.’ – Graham Kennedy

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

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

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

‘I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.’ – Robert Falcon Scott

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

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

‘When you’ve toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you’re always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.’ – Ritchie Blackmore

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

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

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

‘No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.’ – Joe Theismann

‘Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.’ – Ron Livingston

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

‘Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.’ – Lance Loud

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

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

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

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

‘I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I’m waiting in line like everybody else.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.’ – Sherry Stringfield

‘I’ve heard every pie joke in the book. I’m still waiting for an original one.’ – Jason Biggs

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

‘When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.’ – Jim Hodges

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

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

‘But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I’m still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o’clock.’ – Heston Blumenthal

‘On those, I’ve said it before, I work free. It’s the waiting they pay me for.’ – Hector Elizondo

‘We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life – in culture, in economy and in politics.’ – Andrzej Wajda

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

‘You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘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

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

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

‘Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.’ – Gary Miller

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

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

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

‘When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that’s endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.’ – Harry Shearer

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

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

‘But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!’ – Anna Neagle

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

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

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

‘I’m waiting for the time when I fail – because we all fail – and I’m ready, I’ll take up carpentry.’ – Adrian Edmondson

‘I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That’s kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.’ – Matt LeBlanc

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

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

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

‘I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I’m finished with my term as governor, I’m going back to the life that’s waiting for me in the private sector.’ – Jesse Ventura

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

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

‘I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that’s when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.’ – Sharon Stone

‘Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.’ – Marilyn vos Savant

‘But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews… I know, it’s part of the job, but that doesn’t imply I have to like it.’ – Andrew Eldritch

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

‘My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.’ – Tyra Banks

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

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

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

‘We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.’ – Duong Van Minh

‘My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.’ – Salvatore Quasimodo

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

‘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

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

‘Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.’ – Jet Li

‘Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.’ – William Empson

‘I’m just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.’ – David Copperfield

‘While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.’ – Wendell Johnson

‘There’s no such thing as failure – just waiting for success.’ – John Osborne

‘Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.’ – Gian Carlo Menotti

‘Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.’ – Joan Collins

‘Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.’ – Ian Anderson

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

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

‘I’ve been waiting 13 years for justice.’ – Curtis Sliwa

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

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

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

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

‘I know all about you. You’re the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.’ – Gwen Moore

‘I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.’ – Joe Manchin

‘Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.’ – Yannick Noah

‘It’s very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.’ – Zahi Hawass

‘Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?’ – Evan Sayet

‘It’s hard to find a play that’s right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.’ – Dan Castellaneta

‘I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they’re auditioning, because their terror calms me.’ – John C. McGinley

‘I also don’t trust Caribou anymore. They’re out there, on the tundra, waiting… Something’s going down. I’m right about this.’ – Joss Whedon

‘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

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

‘I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad’s tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.’ – John Boehner

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

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

‘Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: ‘I’m waiting to win the lottery. I’m waiting to fall in love’. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.’ – Ian Mckellen

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

‘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

‘Everyone’s waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, ‘Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?’ – Brendan Gleeson

‘We’ve been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We’re just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.’ – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

‘And I think if the president’s made a mistake here, it’s this laid-back kind of approach where he’s waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it’s a political strategy. No matter what it is, it’s not effective in solving problems.’ – Chris Christie

‘Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There’s a reason we feel it. There’s a reason we need to feel it.’ – Ricki Lake

‘Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you’re aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they’re just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.’ – Cindy Sherman

‘You have to create your own stuff. It’s really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I’m not just a pawn waiting to be cast.’ – Anna Faris

‘It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It’s just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.’ – Joey Lauren Adams

‘If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned – but you don’t really have the words to express your concern. There’s only this continued absence.’ – Suzanne Collins

‘My father is a college professor and that’s about the extent of my college experience. I’m sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.’ – Gabriel Mann

‘Getting pregnant wasn’t easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I’d always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.’ – Emily Procter

‘One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing – a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn’t realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.’ – Carol Vorderman

‘Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.’ – Bill Rancic

‘I love making money, but you can’t live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.’ – Julianna Margulies

‘If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness.’ – Larry Page

‘Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.’ – Muqtada al Sadr

‘In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life’s ladder.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don’t have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.’ – Oxana Chusovitina

‘I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.’ – Terrell Davis

‘I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.’ – Angie Harmon

‘My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.’ – Haile Gebrselassie

‘Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it’s all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don’t buy that. It’s a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don’t. Every day I sit down and write.’ – Jodi Picoult

‘Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren’t looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.’ – Diane Keaton

‘I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. ‘When’s he coming? He’s taking a long time, isn’t he?” – Samantha Fox

‘Who needs enemies when you’ve got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?’ – Michelle Malkin

‘When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner – and how that winner might be me.’ – Maria Sharapova

‘I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it’s in the trades the next day – it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.’ – Cynthia Nixon

‘As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.’ – Danny Boyle

‘Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.’ – Maureen Dowd

‘Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I’ve just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.’ – Parker Posey

‘My life’s ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I’m just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn’t rung.’ – Toby Young

‘Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years – which they do – and I go up there and play a leading role.’ – Sandra Oh

‘I’m still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn’t have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.’ – Lizzy Caplan

‘Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!’ – Ted Allen

‘This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that’s what I was able to do today.’ – Roger Federer

‘I didn’t get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I’ve got it back I’m waiting to restore it.’ – Jay Kay

‘The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.’ – Jeff Daniels

‘Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘I’m so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn’t happen very often. I don’t have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.’ – Mitt Romney

‘When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.’ – Paul Ryan

‘Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American’s rights into consideration.’ – Ron Wyden

‘There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one’s home.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.’ – John Boehner

‘I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for ‘Archie’ to read for a boy… I’ve had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.’ – Archie Panjabi

‘So they talk about heaven, and I don’t know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I’ve lived down here, the football life. It’s been perfect.’ – Steve Sabol

‘I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I’m not big enough.’ – Lewis Black

‘I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.’ – Vera Wang

‘All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.’ – Evel Knievel

‘Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.’ – Mike Myers

‘I don’t work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can’t refuse – and I’m not talking about money.’ – Michael Caine

‘The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.’ – Anne Lamott

‘I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes.’ – Camille Paglia

‘I would love to make a Brazilian film, but it would have to be something very close to my heart. It’s such a personal thing, so I’d want to do my family proud. I’d want to do justice to Brazilian cinema. I think Brazilian cinema is brilliant. I would really love to do something, but I’m just waiting for the right thing.’ – Kaya Scodelario

‘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 think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s raining or it’s snowing or whatever.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn’t.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘The whole time after you record an album, you’re just waiting for the release date. You’re waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.’ – Travis Barker

‘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

‘If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been ‘put on hold.” – Joyce Carol Oates

‘I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there’s usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there’s six guys waiting for me.’ – Kevin Pietersen

‘That’s the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nice guy or you’re a prick. If your movies do well, there’s a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It’s not any more complicated than that.’ – Matt Damon

‘There’s a tendency, when you’re directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there’s too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.’ – James Franco

‘I’ll be at the table, as I’ve been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, ‘Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.’ I’m ready. I’m waiting.’ – Patty Murray

‘I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘I’m 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.’ – Harlan Coben

‘When you’re writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you’re finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can’t have in novels.’ – John Green

‘My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.’ – GG Allin

‘The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.’ – Oscar Niemeyer

‘I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing ‘Friends.’ I was waiting tables and doing theater.’ – David Schwimmer

‘I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don’t anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don’t expect that – if something negative does happen, I’ll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.’ – Doug Davidson

‘Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.’ – Dylan McDermott

‘I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day – waiting until I die.’ – Angel Haze

‘The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don’t care how I get it, whether it’s on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?’ – Benjamin Walker

‘For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.’ – Kate Walsh

‘My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month – because my father would be waiting for paycheck – the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.’ – Jose Andres

‘The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.’ – Michel Martelly

‘If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It’s so clearly waiting for someone to come along.’ – Paul Graham

‘Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can’t give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.’ – Jordin Sparks

‘Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don’t know how many feet – maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn’t really see anything. Everything was blurry. I’m waiting for the oxygen – that was the craziest thing.’ – Alessandra Ambrosio

‘I actually signed on to do ‘On the Road’ before we started on ‘Tron,’ but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.’ – Garrett Hedlund

‘It’s naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn’t brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.’ – Janet McTeer

‘When I start working on a batch of tunes – like roughly 10 solid tunes – I always know there’ll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there’s another song waiting behind it.’ – Ryan Adams

‘In today’s world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.’ – Beth Behrs

‘I’m not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.’ – Casey Stoner

‘That’s a hobby of mine – to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me – obviously I’m often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!’ – Roman Coppola

‘I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I’m waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I’ve shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha – they would say they’re the Plains, not the Midwest – and I love it.’ – Jason Reitman

‘You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I’d meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.’ – Glen Hansard

‘The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.’ – Flo Rida

‘The one thing I’ve discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.’ – Susan Orlean

‘Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we’re open for business.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I’m really happy when I’m waiting for a plane and the message comes that it’s three hours late. Great, I’ll get to write!’ – Jo Nesbo

‘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

‘Nothing’s going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.’ – Zoe Kazan

‘As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I’m waiting in the wings to go on, it’s agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I’m on stage it’ll be fine; I’ll be in my happy little bubble.’ – Britt Ekland

‘Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.’ – Mitchell Hurwitz

‘People make me key chains… someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I’m not feeling very motivated.’ – Veronica Roth

‘We didn’t shoot in 3-D. They’ve talked about doing a conversion and there’s been a lot of talk about us doing ‘Sucker Punch’ in 3-D, but I’m still waiting to see.’ – Zack Snyder

‘What’s monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning – the waiting around.’ – Chris Messina

‘The only two shows I watch are ‘Walking Dead’ and ‘Nashville,’ but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I’m not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.’ – Caitlin Rose

‘I haven’t made a movie for a while, but I’ve watched a lot. It’s my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.’ – Bernardo Bertolucci

‘I’m really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn’t buy meat, we couldn’t buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn’t starve – my family were lucky – but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.’ – Eric Burdon

‘They say it’s not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It’s the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.’ – Sloane Crosley

‘The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like this should exist, and people were impatiently waiting for them to show up.’ – Rob Sheffield

‘When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants – hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing – I wasn’t good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing ‘Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,’ but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.’ – Michael Weatherly

‘So much luck! I’m not putting myself down, I’m not saying I don’t have talent – I must have, to have got this far – but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.’ – John Mahoney

‘I didn’t have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn’t going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.’ – Emmylou Harris

‘When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.’ – John Lewis

‘I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I’ve been a teenager – I mean, musically, creatively.’ – Daryl Hall

‘I don’t care what anybody else is wearing. I feel like they’re all waiting to see what I have on. If you really want to know the truth, that’s what I think. They’re waiting to see what I’mma do next.’ – Two Chainz

‘I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.’ – Zoe Lister-Jones

”You’ve got mail!’ exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I’m 10 years old again, waiting for the postman’s whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘Sydney in the 1960s wasn’t the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city’s western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the ‘southerly buster’ – the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘I couldn’t have asked for a better kid. She’s our own little Buddha baby so far. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop to tell you the truth. It’s like the calm before the storm.’ – Ana Ortiz

‘I’m still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck… maybe I’ll play a superhero.’ – Miles Teller

‘Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor’s offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.’ – Isabel Wilkerson

‘Sometimes I forget that I’m supposed to keep people entertained because I’m just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there’s a world waiting on us.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?’ – Guy Finley

‘Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.’ – Brad Meltzer

‘I went to New York for Fashion Week and girls showed up waiting to see me. It’s funny because there’s a group of girls who I actually recognize because they always show up. It’s nice and I’m like, ‘Hi girls! I recognize your faces!’ It’s just like a feel-good experience.’ – Katie Cassidy

‘I love TV, don’t get me wrong. But with film, you’re just banging out this one product and you’re not waiting on another script. You have your script. It’s great, in that way.’ – David Anders

‘I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that’s where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy’s band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, ‘You want to play?” – Donald Byrd

‘I’d do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that’s fun, it doesn’t have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.’ – Bernie Leadon

‘I’m sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my ‘8¬Ω’ or something, which is completely insane.’ – Max Winkler

‘What I remember most about working on ‘Sesame Street’ is having fun in the green room with the other kids while waiting for my time to go on camera to work with the puppets.’ – Tyler James Williams

‘I’m not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that’s what I’m waiting for.’ – Paget Brewster

‘One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time – but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what’s coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you’re locked into it.’ – Nick Kroll

‘There’s just a feeling, when you’re just an actor – I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don’t understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that’s why I’ve been constantly trying to create my own content.’ – Nick Kroll

‘The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive – no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.’ – Andrew O’Hagan

‘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

‘Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, ‘You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission.” – Eve Ensler

‘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

‘You don’t lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time – maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you’ve been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.’ – Dick Gephardt

‘India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world. To begin with, Travelex is setting up eight city centre branches in metros and other major cities including tourist destinations.’ – Lloyd Dorfman

‘I think when you’ve had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you’ve already proven yourself. They’re excited about what you’re doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It’s empowering.’ – Lois Lowry

‘Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.’ – Rich Cohen

‘I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves ‘Downton Abbey’ will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.’ – Julia Quinn

‘I’m always hopeful. I feel like I’m at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.’ – Sarah Dessen

‘Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can’t see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.’ – Gail Collins

‘Texas hold ’em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.’ – David Einhorn

‘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

‘The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you’ve prepared for two months.’ – Jesse Eisenberg

‘If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I’m harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.’ – Steve Carell

‘There’s constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.’ – Zadie Smith

‘When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations – the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.’ – Jerry Robinson

‘Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There’s always one place that’s the place. That’s how it works.’ – Hari Kunzru

‘Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.’ – Andre Leon Talley

‘Songs are out there – they’re waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like ‘I don’t think so’ and a nice riff. It rolls from there.’ – Ronnie Wood

‘Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the ’50s: You’re stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.’ – Zooey Deschanel

‘I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘By nature, I’m a person who always says that whatever I’ve done, I could’ve done better. But I don’t dwell on it because I’m waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones.’ – David Stern

‘I’ll give you my worst nightmare. I’m dreaming that I’m onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what’s going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing… and the audience is there waiting.’ – Jackie Earle Haley

‘Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I’m still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person.’ – Will Poulter

‘What’s great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they’re so fast, they grow overnight.’ – Bonnie Bassler

‘I’m just waiting for the moment where it’s accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how ‘liberated’ they are.’ – Marina and the Diamonds

‘I’m waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘If I know somebody is coming ’round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I’m waiting for this interruption – even the children’s comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called ‘Surrealist Head II’. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the ‘Surrealist Head’, and I was thrilled.’ – Jeff Koons

‘I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so… I’m waiting to find the right person, someone who’s willing to take on the job.’ – Prince Harry

‘You can’t manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There’s still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don’t have a method that I can go back to – they either come or they don’t.’ – Conor Oberst

‘I can’t stand that – those women in ‘Waiting to Exhale’ now. I can’t stand them. But that’s because I’m 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.’ – Terry McMillan

‘I just work – however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I’m waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don’t need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.’ – Nick Cannon

‘The world is just waiting to be skated.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that’s, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it’s going to come.’ – C. K. Williams

‘The great thing about ‘Battlestar’ was that it was basically ‘Star Wars’ but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge ‘Battlestar’ fan.’ – Aaron Douglas

‘There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts… I think it’s very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.’ – Clemence Poesy

‘All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.’ – Alain de Botton

‘If you’re a lead actor, people are just waiting to say ‘you’re too old’ or ‘you’re too unhip.’ If you’re a supporting actor, you can just work forever.’ – Gilbert Gottfried

‘I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we’re just intimate, but because we’re mentally intimate. So I’m waiting for that person to come into my life.’ – LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

‘It is nobody’s right to be waited on and nobody’s fate to do the waiting.’ – Margaret Heffernan

‘I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it – logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking – but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability – and I’m making no claims here – proportional to your supposed good looks.’ – Carole Bouquet

‘Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I’ve done in my career.’ – Allen Iverson

‘In Chicago it’s really a case of the play’s the thing – people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors – not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.’ – John C. Reilly

‘I’ve been making music for a long time, but I’ve been waiting to do it right, because I don’t want people to think it’s just a stepping stone in my career. A lot of actors go that route as a way of building their careers. I don’t want it to be seen as that.’ – Evan Ross

‘I’ve been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don’t tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-’em or the walker kills on ‘The Walking Dead.’ That stuff’s not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It’s more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.’ – Dallas Roberts

‘Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There’s nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you’re going to be scared to death. There’s something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.’ – Ashley Bell

‘I’ve been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time – I’m always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I’ll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I’m a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don’t look forward to.’ – Dustin Milligan

‘With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.’ – Nathan Wolfe

‘I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.’ – Luke Bryan

‘I don’t take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They’re waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.’ – Kelly Cutrone

‘I’m the joke of the family with cooking because I’ve never done it – primarily because I’ve been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum’s brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I’m waiting for my inner chef to be released.’ – Emilia Fox

‘Acting is so much about waiting… waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It’s nice to write your own thing, write about what you’re feeling and then go out and perform them. It’s a nice thing to have and not get bored.’ – Emily Kinney

‘What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else’s hands. It’s always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘I don’t want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it’s not nice to stab people in the first place?’ – Simon Sinek

‘I can’t start my day without hearing ‘Waiting On the World to Change’ by John Mayer. It’s my alarm clock and my favorite song.’ – Matthew Underwood

‘I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, ‘Wow.’ Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I’m going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.’ – Katie Aselton

‘Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There’s no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there’s no dress rehearsal anymore.’ – Autumn Reeser

‘Sometimes you go into a waiting room, and the audition room is right there, and the walls are extremely thin. And you can hear every breath that they’re saying. And you’re used to that. So you go in, and you’re like, ‘Oh, whatever.” – Michael Angarano

‘The kids today have these fresh faces. It’s like they’re on pins and needles, waiting to see what I’m going to do. They’ve never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I’ve worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.’ – Mavis Staples

‘If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome – my last tour almost caused it.’ – Bill Simmons

‘Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I’m interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘I don’t believe in writer’s block or waiting for inspiration. If you’re a writer, you sit down and write.’ – Elmore Leonard

‘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

‘I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I’m seeing all the food every day, and there’s lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.’ – Donnie Yen

‘Applause, it’s very nice, of course. But when you’re giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.’ – Anna Netrebko

‘In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That’s my success.’ – Rani Mukerji

‘Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they’re waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that’s all that matters.’ – Sammi Hanratty

‘The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is only just finding my foot in and is beginning to participate in Hollywood and making films. So the idea of any kind of fandom or people that are waiting for something that I may release is very distant in my mind.’ – Neill Blomkamp

‘I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don’t know what that tells you. People who look like… they’re waiting for a sandwich that’s never going to come. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.’ – Dylan Moran

‘There’s so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you’ve spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it’s pretty terrifying.’ – Ali MacGraw

‘In my run-ins with Christians… I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don’t seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He’s very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It’s not ‘Rocky 7.” – Ryan Coogler

‘I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges – waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That’s just the nature of life.’ – Amy Grant

‘Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It’s not that I’m pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don’t stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘It’s true – women want the fantasy. So give them romance – but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.’ – Nadine Velazquez

‘I love doing short films because they’re much more intimate and there’s far less waiting around than on the bigger films.’ – Natalia Tena

‘I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I’m tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I’m going to go and produce something.’ – Kirk Cameron

‘In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘Independence is fun, especially when there’s a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.’ – Deborah Moggach

‘We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘Woodstock – I didn’t see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn’t get there except by helicopter.’ – Grace Slick

‘Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, ‘Oh, you get to make a movie, and it’s all fun.’ But the reality is, it’s a lot of hours. It’s a lot of reshoots; it’s a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that’s real.’ – Jill Scott

‘To convince people to back your idea, you’ve got to sell it to yourself and know when it’s the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It’s like surfing. You don’t create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.’ – James Cameron

‘We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I’m confident.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you’re alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘I know there’s a creative side to artists to – pardon me – there’s a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.’ – Alan Alda

‘The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they’re ordering food, they’re out for the night, and there’s also a person onstage talking. And with the theater, they came to the theater, and they’re waiting to hear what you say. So you’d better have something to say.’ – Mike Birbiglia

‘I’m not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It’s very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.’ – Michael Caine

‘I’ve been in this business for a long while, but it’s not like I’ve been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I’ve only worked on things that I love. I’ve had a lot of heartbreak, but you don’t become an artist and not expect that.’ – Joss Whedon

‘My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can’t be avoided.’ – Gina Bellman

‘What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.’ – Bernie Siegel

‘So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer’s life – as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist’s life.’ – Nina Conti

‘History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.’ – Sarah Churchwell

‘I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.’ – Sadie Jones

‘I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It’s like catching a fly in a bottle. I’ll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘Instead of waiting until the holiday season – when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations – and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘I really like writing music. That’s kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don’t really have any control when you’re an actor, over what you’re doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You’re always waiting to hear from people.’ – Amelia Warner

‘I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a ‘macho’ dog but got this sweet little thing instead.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘I don’t like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future – for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.’ – Beth Brooke

‘Actually, I’m not a gym rat. I’m not a gym person – I’ve never been. I’ve always been blessed to be thin. If I’m waiting for the kettle to boil, I’m doing 15 lunges.’ – Paige Butcher

‘I’m trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.’ – James Mercer

‘I’m much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.’ – Bill Plympton

‘A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.’ – Alice Oswald

‘Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.’ – James E. Faust

‘Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you’re just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there’s split seconds where you’ve got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don’t get to repeat it if you do it wrong.’ – Jim McKelvey

‘Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of ‘Pippin’? Maybe.’ – Jean Hanff Korelitz

‘When I’m on a set, and I’m in between a scene or on a plane waiting, I read Twitter and I love it.’ – Henry Winkler

‘Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.’ – Colleen Hanabusa

‘For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks.’ – David Chang

‘Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.’ – David Chang

‘When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.’ – Cecily Brown

‘Knowledge in the Internet Age – networked knowledge – is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it’s provisional; it’s a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.’ – David Weinberger

‘I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.’ – Judy Greer

‘I’m a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don’t want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make… of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.’ – Tobias Lindholm

‘Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn’t going to come along and cut your grass.’ – Bill Cosby

‘The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.’ – Adhir Kalyan

‘Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis – Danny’s Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the ’21’ Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor’s – his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players’ gate, hoping to touch him.’ – Jane Leavy

‘In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.’ – Charlie Wilson

‘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

‘Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I’ve always been independent. I’ll do my thing and go.’ – Malaika Arora Khan

‘There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that’s gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn’t supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.’ – Hannah Kent

‘In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.’ – Seth Shostak

‘You know when you’ve found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.’ – Peter O’Toole

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

‘Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people’s money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don’t go broke.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.’ – Kim Dickens

‘I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.’ – Art Alexakis

‘When you’re a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they’re constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.’ – Aaron Schock

‘When I pray, I feel close to my Father in Heaven, and I feel His guiding hand in my life. If there is one thing I have learned, it is this: God knows us, He loves us, and He is waiting to help us.’ – Jane Clayson

‘I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn’t seem to have much interest for me.’ – Gong Li

‘It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘People ask me all the time, ‘How can I become a successful entrepreneur?’ And I have to be honest: It’s one of my least favorite questions, because if you’re waiting for someone else’s advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you’re not one.’ – Michael Dell

‘Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I’m working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.’ – Corneille Ewango

‘The dullest thing in the world is waiting for your scene. But the most exciting thing is seeing yourself on the screen and then getting compliments.’ – Casey Kasem

‘I think voters appreciate that I’m not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.’ – Steve Southerland

‘I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn’t really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to ‘Game of Thrones,’ and it was just like, everything I’ve been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.’ – Alex Graves

‘There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.’ – Soledad O’Brien

‘I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much … There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!’ – Carrie Underwood

‘I love TV, don’t get me wrong. But with film, you’re just banging out this one product, and you’re not waiting on another script. You have your script. It’s great in that way. It’s as close to theater as you can get.’ – David Anders

‘When I’m not working, I’m on the road with my band. Or I’m performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I’ve got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.’ – Malcolm-Jamal Warner

‘I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.’ – Deborah Copaken Kogan

‘I don’t like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you’re forced into that position, so that’s sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.’ – Thomas Ian Nicholas

‘I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.’ – Natalie Massenet

‘I think I’m a better mother because of work, because I’m happy. If I wasn’t working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.’ – Natalie Massenet

‘Whenever I’m waiting behind the stage, it’s kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.’ – Jackie Evancho

‘I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.’ – Morgan Saylor

‘I’m the type of guy if there’s a haunted hotel in town, I’m staying there and will stay up all night waiting to get the crap scared out of me.’ – Stephen Colletti

‘I’m still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom’s father. No, Orlando Bloom’s younger, hotter brother. I don’t think it’s going to happen.’ – Cliff Curtis

‘You have that moment just before you go on – I’ve had it in every play – where you just kind of want to run away. There’s a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you’re like, ‘Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?” – Jessica Raine

‘Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.’ – Charlotte Le Bon

‘I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for – a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum.’ – Marc Koska

‘I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of ‘The Office,’ to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what’s going on with this documentary and see behind the scenes with who is involved.’ – Greg Daniels

‘What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.’ – Greg Fitzsimmons

‘Although it’s not something I’m particularly proud of, I’m willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the ‘New Yorker’ and ‘New York Times’ on my Kindle, I’ve picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.’ – Derek Blasberg

‘Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don’t make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!’ – Constance Marie

‘Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?’ – Jenna Morasca

‘I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.’ – Brooke Elliott

‘Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents.’ – Glen Duncan

‘My view is that life is too short. I’m not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms – just you and her, and it’s one o’clock in the morning, and you’re waiting for her to exhale – you just think, life’s too bloody short to argue about the little things.’ – Saffron Aldridge

‘My first professional gig was ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ at the Drury Lane Oakbrook… I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.’ – Jessie Mueller

‘Now it’s all about the word of mouth, and watching a series on Netflix. That’s the way people actually consume this stuff now, instead of waiting for a DVD release you’re not really sure you want to buy. And I think it’s fantastic, because then I can watch the shows that I missed, over a weekend. I love doing that.’ – James Frain

‘Sometimes you’re working with somebody, and you can tell they’re just waiting to say their line.’ – Bill Hader

‘When I was 14, I saw ‘Waiting for Godot.’ It’s one of those plays that if it’s done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.’ – Kit Harington

‘I’m only human, and therefore, there’s a part of me that’s waiting for people to say, ‘Enough of you!” – Jim Parsons

‘There’s an awful lot of hanging around when you’re doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.’ – John Hurt

‘Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don’t do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.’ – Rick Astley

‘I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I’m the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I’m waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.’ – Chord Overstreet

‘It’s nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you’re not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don’t want to be the guy Googling himself all day.’ – Jonathan Dee

‘Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, ‘Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.’ But after a year of not getting work, there’s this really difficult conflict, like, ‘Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?” – David Walton

‘It’s harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you’re waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You’ll stay fresh.’ – Rickie Fowler

‘I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don’t hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.’ – Matt Cartwright

‘We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have… the earth and nature.’ – Dave Davies

‘With such riches as I have in life, you’re always nervous. Being Irish, you’re waiting for something to knock it sideways.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘Not one person from the music world has ever come with – as if I could get a rock’n’roller up at four in the morning to play golf – but that’s fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.’ – Buzz Osborne

‘My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.’ – Robert M. Parker, Jr.

‘My assistant says I’m an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts… about 4,000 now. Maybe I’ll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.’ – Bruce Vilanch

‘Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don’t wait for them to go to school and hope for the best.’ – Tony Buzan

‘I think when I started acting, the whole time I was working towards one day coming to America. Hollywood, in particular, is seen to be the center of this industry, and I was just waiting for the right time to come.’ – Liam Hemsworth

‘I don’t really like long flights any more – I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days – huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don’t really enjoy travelling. I don’t imagine anyone does except young children.’ – Christopher Lee

‘Even after doing that TV thing, ‘Roswell,’ I’m still waiting to see my first UFO.’ – Kyle MacLachlan

‘You see, there weren’t these magazines like ‘Heat’ in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.’ – Joanna Lumley

‘The first thing I do when I come to work, I say hello to my dogs and give them one biscuit each. The butler takes them out to the park and drops them off at the office, so they are there waiting for me. They are very popular in the studio. They play all the time. They run around, up and down, left and right.’ – Stefano Gabbana

‘Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘When a new manager comes in, you need to show him what you can do, but that may mean waiting for your opportunity.’ – Charlie Adam

‘The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.’ – Lloyd Dorfman

‘I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.’ – Lorraine Toussaint

‘Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you’re waiting to kick the door down.’ – Joe Madureira

‘I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.’ – Siegfried Lenz

‘I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that’s unheard of. They don’t wait for nobody.’ – Rita Ora

‘I’ve got my feet on the ground because I’ve got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they’re not my flesh and blood. I haven’t got children. That’s my only regret, I suppose.’ – Bonnie Tyler

‘I’m still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that’s gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that’s going to cost you a little more. The sky’s the limit after that.’ – Coolio

‘For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It’s important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it’s really unfair to make them wait.’ – Becca Tobin

‘While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.’ – Kara Swisher

‘All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It’s a blur. I remember my jogging runs better – that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I’d just be pacing around, waiting to go on.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus

‘I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘I’m a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I’m not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I’m still alive.’ – Gian Carlo Menotti

‘You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That’s when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that’s when I made most of my hay.’ – Fred Funk

‘A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.’ – Gerry Schwartz

‘There was a point where there was a vision that we’ll get to a certain age, and then we’ll retire and be happy. Now that’s like, that’s being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you’ll be so sick, you wouldn’t enjoy it anyway.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘When I was growing up in the early ’70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.’ – Dave Gahan

‘For years, I’ve felt that there’s an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I’m having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.’ – Lesley Nicol

‘I’d love to do a comedy. Umm, I don’t know when that will happen – maybe when I’m, like, 80 or something. But yeah, I’d love to. I’m just waiting for the right person to see my hilarious nature and offer me a comedy.’ – Lena Headey

‘I think I’ve always been waiting for things to happen.’ – Robin Wright

‘I’m just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it’s cooked, I’m going to serve that meal that everybody’s been waiting for.’ – Fetty Wap

‘If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there’s any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.’ – Ariel Pink

‘You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you’re just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven’t even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.’ – Bill Callahan

‘You always hear actors say, ‘Theater is my first love,’ and it is. It’s a time when you really get to do what you do, and there’s not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved – sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.’ – Amy Landecker

‘Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.’ – Mona Simpson

‘In a weird way, I’m always going to ground myself. I’m an insecure kind of pessimist, but I’m always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘We’ve been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.’ – Vonda Shepard

‘Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don’t have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.’ – Chelsea Cain

‘Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you’re thinking, like, ‘This thing is going to come to me.” – Alex Turner

‘Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.’ – Louis MacNeice

‘The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don’t quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.’ – Peter Jackson

‘Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, ‘Why do you bother doing books? Why don’t you just put all this stuff on the Internet?’ It’s because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone’s coffee table or in a waiting room.’ – Rick Smolan

‘When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new – ‘This is what I’ve been waiting for!’ – and some people don’t want or need the change – ‘I like my old one.” – Amy Heckerling

‘I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.’ – Amy Heckerling

‘I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle.’ – Martha Stewart

‘I’ve played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of ‘Waiting for Godot.’ I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I’ve had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.’ – Barry Humphries

‘When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.’ – Betty Wright

‘I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.’ – Daniel Woodrell

‘The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what’s in your heart. He already knows the decisions you’ve made. He’s just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was.’ – Victoria Osteen

‘The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.’ – Golshifteh Farahani

‘Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.’ – Darren Shan

‘I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.’ – Garth Nix

‘There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.’ – Beverly Lewis

‘Beneath the surface of your ego’s insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.’ – Debbie Ford

‘To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.’ – Johannes Heesters

‘Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.’ – Teresa Medeiros

‘Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.’ – Meghan Daum

‘Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘A seed, after all, is an embryo, a potential plant waiting for its moment to grow. It has what it needs to begin. But it can also put itself on pause. It can wait.’ – Robert Krulwich

‘With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now.’ – Tawakkol Karman

‘I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein’s fall.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.’ – Deborah Eisenberg

‘Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant – Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs – as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They’ll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I’ll always be together with the other two laureates.’ – Ada Yonath

‘Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That’s not how it works – community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.’ – Betty Williams

‘For me to play gay, it has to be something special because it might actually be more of a risk. So I’m waiting for that role – I want it to be something that moves things forward.’ – Russell Tovey

‘The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead – no defile that has no outlet – it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Business needs to push the agenda rather than waiting for it to happen.’ – Jochen Zeitz

‘I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!’ – Jochen Zeitz

‘You’ve probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.’ – Terry Teachout

‘I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an ‘I told you so.’ Moms are usually right. You’re wrong if you don’t think that they’ve done what we’re doing, because they have.’ – Elle King

‘I didn’t have cable when ‘Breaking Bad’ started, so I came to it late and kept waiting for a friend to watch it with, and could not find a single person who was not already into Season 3 and didn’t refuse to start watching it from the beginning.’ – Rhea Seehorn

‘A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is – a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.’ – John Niven

‘Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying… There is always something you can do… Create something, a play reading… Anything. But don’t rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.’ – Deirdre O’Kane

‘The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You’re watching a great television show you’re really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.’ – Ted Sarandos

‘A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with – if you’re lucky – bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.’ – Nick Harkaway

‘One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they’re afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there’s an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.’ – Edmund Phelps

‘Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.’ – Bob Mayer

‘Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there’s not a lot of idleness in my future.’ – Sarah Steele

‘It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years – I’ve played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank – there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.’ – Susan Strasberg

‘In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.’ – Wolfgang Paul

‘The Fiction Writer’s Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.’ – M. J. Rose

‘My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of ‘Waiting to Exhale’ is that publishing woke up. They said, ‘Wow. Black people do read.” – Tananarive Due

‘In England, there’s a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they’re not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it’s important to create the work.’ – Aml Ameen

‘The moon’s closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.’ – Gregory Benford

‘We’re the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.’ – Jerome Charyn

‘I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you’re gone.’ – Romesh Wadhwani

‘Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘After the ‘X Factor,’ there were opportunities everywhere. It was all there waiting for me to enjoy. I didn’t understand business.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.’ – John Corey Whaley

‘I’ve only cried at one book, but I’m too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn’t terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I’ve read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.’ – Rebecca Makkai

‘From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.’ – Sheldon Lee Glashow

‘Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a ‘do I or don’t I?’; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.’ – Ruby Rose

‘When you’re adapting, you are working on someone else’s problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you’re just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts – the structure is there and waiting for you.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It’s flexible.’ – Barbara Hambly

‘For half a century, the Sunset Strip was the asphalt timeline of American popular music. My most distinct memory, from more years ago than I’ll confess to, is waiting for a table at the Olde World, which occupied a wedge of territory at Sunset and Holloway Drive, where the daiquiris became more vicious the longer you sat in the sun.’ – Steve Erickson

‘We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you’re not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.’ – Jeb Bush

‘Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.’ – Tiffany Thornton

‘When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It’s like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you’re waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it’s supposed to be due.’ – Holly Holm

‘He has been a world champion – great for him – but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I’m here waiting for him because I’m the best British fighter to come out of these shores.’ – Tyson Fury

‘I firmly believe the Senate should see more voting and debate and less standing around and waiting for backroom deals.’ – James Lankford

‘I call my ring Procter and Gamble, because David paid for it through his first commercial from Head & Shoulders. When I met David, he was waiting tables. He was below broke, in deep debt, but I followed my heart. When you’re looking for a mate, don’t look at his current status, but his present potential that will become a part of his future.’ – Alysia Reiner

‘One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don’t believe in waiting for the muse to visit.’ – Keri Smith

‘As my YouTube following grew, I was soon earning as much from advertising revenue as from waiting tables, so I quit my job. My boss thought I was crazy, which just made me more determined. In 2012, four years and 200 videos later, my channel was so successful that Google offered me $1 million to create 20 hours of content.’ – Michelle Phan

‘If I can find time to play games, it’s console gaming. I don’t want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I’m waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I’ve been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.’ – Michelle Phan

‘Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it’s one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it’s quite a leap from ‘something funny’ to cold fusion.’ – Sam Kean

‘We as humans are so imperfect. We are always looking for something more and always going astray from Jesus. Whether you believe in him or not, but he is always there with open arms. God never abandons you. He is always waiting for you to come back and when you do, you won’t be scolded – you will be embraced.’ – Matty Mullins

‘I was in San Francisco for ‘Trauma’ and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it’s all a waiting game. And then, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ came up, and I was really interested and read for it.’ – Taylor Kinney

‘This isn’t an easy lifestyle for a coach’s wife. The coach is the guy who stands up and hears everyone tell him how great he is. The wife is the one waiting at home alone while the coach is spending every night at the office.’ – Joe Gibbs

‘I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.’ – Margaret Stohl

‘When I first started submitting my work professionally – and we’re talking years and years ago – I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.’ – Cullen Bunn

‘Our products weren’t getting some of the excitement they deserved because you were waiting on hold on the phone, or we missed an appointment.’ – Brian L. Roberts

‘It’s been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you’re sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you’re going to be waiting a long time.’ – Donald Trump, Jr.

‘The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next – like a kids’ soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who’s off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.’ – Steve Capus

‘I’ve written a very long piece of music recently, the ‘Veil of the Temple,’ which lasts about seven hours. It’s really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.’ – John Tavener

‘I would come home after school and begin to create videos, because there was people waiting to see new content from me.’ – Megan Nicole

‘I remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, ‘What if I don’t make it? What if I’m still waiting tables when I’m 35?’ I was just at the end of my rope. But I’ve been at the end of that rope several times.’ – Chelsea Handler

‘I’m waiting for the candidate who says, ‘I’m keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.” – Jerry Della Femina

‘There’s parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you’re in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don’t like that a bit.’ – Bernard Sumner

‘I think if you take ‘Get Ready,’ ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call,’ ‘Lost Sirens’ – those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.’ – Bernard Sumner

‘In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.’ – Taylor Negron

‘Modern romance novels tell a young woman that she can be successful, useful, and valuable on her own; that there are men who will respect her and treat her well; and that such men are worth waiting for.’ – Leigh Michaels

‘You have lines of people outside Apple stores waiting for the latest iPhone, which adds to the hype around new product launch. So scarcity has value not just in its own right, but as a basis for free PR – it can become a story on the nightly news.’ – John Quelch

‘I’ve been waiting for Prince Charming like every other little girl.’ – Shelly Burch

‘Where the ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren’t waiting around to find out.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler

‘That time when you’re waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you’ll stand out.’ – Jenny Slate

‘You are not waiting for your life to start. It’s going on right now.’ – Jenny Slate

‘When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn’t go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: ‘Yeah, of course you can take a photo…’ but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, ‘Whoa, I don’t like this attention anymore.” – Laura Trott

‘I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.’ – Avigdor Lieberman

‘I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.’ – Condola Rashad

‘I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I’d worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.’ – Alexander Chee

‘The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people’s expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of ‘coming of age,’ many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses.’ – John Zimmer

‘Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald’s or Walmart, ‘How many jobs do you have?’ and likely he or she will tell you: ‘Two.’ I know colleagues who’ve had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.’ – Donna Brazile

‘Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.’ – Jill Stein

‘This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history’s arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.’ – Jo Becker

‘I’ve never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I’m kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I’m sort of waiting for something to happen that I’m not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?’ – Edward Snowden

‘Jay-Z has kind of shown that you can get to the very top without waiting, without following rules. In fact, it’s better if you don’t. People will admire you more if you break the rules.’ – George Packer

‘I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa – that came out in 1988 – called ‘The Village of Waiting.” – George Packer

‘We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘I’m so impatient. I can’t even stand waiting for a cab, and I’m always early for everything. In training, it means I want to run my personal best every session – but it takes time.’ – Jessica Ennis-Hill

‘There’s a huge migration of eyeballs from television screens to cellphones, tablets, and laptops. More and more people prefer to watch their favorite shows at a time and a place of their own choosing. Appointment TV only happens when you are waiting for the doctor.’ – Jorge Ramos

‘You don’t have the chance in a small business – when every dollar counts, every day – to make too many mistakes and recover from them, and you don’t have the luxury of waiting to make the decision. You have to move quickly.’ – Suzan DelBene

‘I think there’s something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I’m generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone.’ – Elizabeth Debicki

‘I’ve realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don’t have to wait for anybody’s permission to do.’ – Leslie Odom, Jr.

‘The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room … watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I’m gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.’ – Marcus Luttrell

”Waiting for Godot,’ when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.’ – Roger Rees

‘With amateur boxing, you’re just entered into a competition. And to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. You’re not waiting around to get these fights organised.’ – Katie Taylor

‘My two boys have each done a play. They’ve done school plays as well, but one of them did a local production of ‘Waiting For Godot,’ and he played the boy.’ – Thomas Gibson

‘I’ve considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I’ve done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.’ – Tom Reiss

‘I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.’ – Rahm Emanuel

‘My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it’s wonderful, and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it – all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.’ – Vincent Cassel

‘I regard myself as a grand juror waiting to hear the evidence from the prosecutor, the Judiciary Committee. I’m diametrically opposed to Nixon and everything he stands for, but I want to see the evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors first.’ – Thomas P. O’Neill

‘Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years’ time & hard work – ‘The Life Line,’ ‘Peril on the Sea,’ ‘Eight Bells,’ ‘Mending Tears,’ – all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.’ – Winslow Homer

‘God hasn’t given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.’ – Peter Marshall

‘We can’t sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘If the salesperson is busy, he or she should nod and say ‘I’ll be with you in a few moments,’ so the customer won’t mind waiting.’ – Stanley Marcus

‘I’m just waiting for the day when my songs aren’t flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy’s law – if something can go wrong, it eventually will.’ – Zara Larsson

‘It’s pretty frustrating waiting for anything.’ – Drew Pomeranz

‘You’d be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you’re not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.’ – Chesley Sullenberger

‘It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.’ – Ransom Riggs

‘Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we’re discovering, it’s been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, ‘Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.’ And it doesn’t matter if it’s from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.’ – Ali Shaheed Muhammad

‘I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn’t until my album ‘Poetica,’ which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!’ – Anat Cohen

‘If I have a thought, I say it. If I keep it down, it’s because I’m waiting for a good moment for me to say my piece. That’s a luxury we have in our society, but parts of the world still don’t have it.’ – Ruthie Ann Miles

‘Usually, I’ll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue – you can do so much with gesture. I’m still waiting to do a silent film.’ – Ben Foster

‘When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you’re waiting and waiting and waiting, once you’re actually on set engaging in the scene with another actor, time is of the essence.’ – Aja Naomi King

‘Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It’s like when I watch ‘American Idol’ and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It’s not always a good idea.’ – Lauren Graham

‘I didn’t realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is – other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period.’ – Albert Bandura

‘Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.’ – Jim Mattis

‘I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don’t like that. Because once you know where you’re going as an audience member, then it’s like a video game. You’re just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that’s boring.’ – Jeff Nichols

‘Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you’ve got to wait in line to do everything the way it’s supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.’ – David MacKenzie

‘One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, ‘I Already Know I Love You.’ It was one of those really lovely things in life.’ – Billy Crystal

‘There’s no better citizen than a veteran. There’s so much waiting for you outside, and it’s not something to be intimidated by or scared by; it is something to be embraced.’ – Rob Riggle

‘I grew up feeling ‘less than.’ I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I’d wait for my grandmother’s voice to call, ‘Jewell, Jewell.’ I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I’d be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.’ – Jewell Parker Rhodes

‘To this day, I haven’t felt like I’ve made it. I’m waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I’m just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.’ – Kevin Nealon

‘I have been waiting a long time to see what’s next for Bridget Jones, and I am beyond thrilled she’s back.’ – Sonny Mehta

‘I don’t like when people seem to put every single thing on and just walk up and down outside waiting to be photographed. I think that’s a bit lame.’ – Alexa Chung

‘Christmases past, my sister Carolyn and I – we’d been waiting for Santa all night. Nothing! Where is this man?’ – Aretha Franklin

‘If you leave me waiting ’round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That’s my job, like your job is to do what you do.’ – Eddie Marsan

‘To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That’s what I’m still working on, having done this for 20 years now.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘I think it goes without saying that young would-be playwrights in developmental workshops should be so lucky as to write plays as good as ‘Waiting for Godot,’ ‘Uncle Vanya’ or ‘King Lear,’ none of which would have existed without a decent plot.’ – Theresa Rebeck

‘My father used to say it was just there, the opportunity. It was all teed up for him. The talkies were starting, and here was Hollywood waiting for people to come from New York who had the training, who could do music with a sense of dramatic context.’ – Thomas Newman

‘I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, ‘There’s one over there’. I said, ‘Please’, and when he refused I poured my water over him.’ – Miriam Margolyes

‘You don’t have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped.’ – Howard Jacobson

‘I was waiting for L.A. to always become something important. I gave up… I left in 1974.’ – James Turrell

‘For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.’ – Vernon Howard