“I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young girl or woman somewhere may one night turn on the television and for the first time ever see her life represented - not as an isolated incident but as a multiplicity. Her overwhelming fear may have been that she might never find her tribe, she might never find love and now she knows that they are both out there waiting for her.” KnowsFirstsMayHas BeensMightYoungNightTurnsGirlWaitingTelevisionGayMembersFirst TimeCherishOverwhelmingIsolatedTribesIncidentsOne NightTurn-onFinding LoveMultiplicityHonorary Author:Jennifer Beals
“John Boehner is a member of a country club in Ohio. It turns out that the bartender was plotting to poison Boehner. Now wait a minute. Isn't that the movie with Seth Rogen and James Franco?” CountryTurnsWaitingMinutesMembersClubsPoisonOhioBartenderFrancoCountry Clubs Author:David Letterman
“I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ballup against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.” HouseWaitingSidesSleepPartyMembersSixGet UpTennisCivilizedBreakfastBanging Book:The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News
“If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.” IfsKnowsJobsSufferingLostWaitingLossGoneMembersDiseaseSeasonsBlueDivorceFamily MembersLivelihoodWaiting For You Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“I'm 33 and in my "Jesus year," and I want it all right now. I want a perfect body. I want to have a perfect love affair. I want every member of my family to be healthy and happy. And I want the world to save itself and for America to realize that it has to give up its idea of being an empire. Wait until I hit 40; then it'll all come crumbling down.” WorldWantGivingYearsIdeasBodyAmericaJesusWaitingRealizingPerfectHealthyRight NowMembersGiving UpMy FamilyAffairEmpiresLove AffairPerfect LoveCrumblingHealthy And Happy Author:Rufus Wainwright
“The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act?” IfsYearsCareHouseNamesWaitingWhiteMinutesCostMembersBillsCongressExtrasExpensiveWhite HouseStaffObamacareAffordableCoverageApprovedExemptionAffordable Care ActStaff Members Author:Jay Leno
“I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!” I CanWaitingMembersCongressHeyGatesVirginsBin LadenOsama Bin LadenContinentalPearly GatesVirginians Author:Robin Williams
“In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.” EndsWaitingRoomsPartyMembersTablesLabourDiningLabour PartyDining Rooms Author:Gyles Brandreth
“Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."” YearsI CanPlayAgeWaitingCan DoWalksImagineMembersYears AgoMarkGolfCongressIdiotPerformingImagine That Author:Hal Holbrook
“My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who hides in the attic and watches the Apocalypse, a cult whose members preserve themselves in huge formalin tubs waiting for the Second Coming, and so on.” StoriesRealityChristianWaitingWatchesHugeMembersAspectSeriesMythPreservesCultApocalypseAtticsTubs Author:Karin Tidbeck
“One time, the Library of Congress was giving books to local libraries around the country on Islam. The library of a guy named Walter Jones, who's a member of Congress from North Carolina, got some books and resource materials, and he got up in the press and said he didn't want any Muslim books in the library. And the people said, "Wait a minute, that's kind of anti-Muslim." He said, "Oh no, Keith Ellison is a friend of mine." And I said, "You know what? We are friends, but you're wrong about this.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingKindSaidBookCountryGuyWaitingMinutesMinesMaterialsMembersResourcesPressesIslamLibraryCongressLocalsOne TimeCarolinaNorth CarolinaKeith Author:Keith Ellison
“In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.” PeopleThinkingWayStatesWould BeIndividualWaitingMembersRedAppreciateBasesCrisisBlueCongressExtremesCampaignsMidstVotersSenatorsSeverePartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.” YearsWaitingAbilityBrainMillionsGrowingEmotionalThousandMembersCreatingCapableHundredBiggerSpeciesSizeAlliesThousand YearsElephantsNeuronsSproutsRelationships With OthersBiomassEmotional Relationship Author:John Medina
“It goes to local authorities and even to members of Parliament so that individual citizens almost become people who want to sit and wait for their member of Parliament to come and solve the problem. Now that won't take you anywhere. And if you follow it, you will see that it feeds corruption in the country.” PeopleIfsWantCountryProblemIndividualWaitingCitizensMembersAuthorityCorruptionSolveLocalsParliamentMembers Of Parliament Author:Wangari Maathai
“Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.” HumansWaitingTermSuccessfulFootballMembersProfitCultHuman History Author:Steve Almond