Best Waiting Rooms Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.”

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“Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.”

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“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.”

People Knows May States Waiting Black White Rooms Office Doctors South Stations Bus Black People Waiting Rooms

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.”

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Author:Mick LaSalle

“Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.”

Death Waiting Rooms Immortality Robes Waiting Rooms

Book:Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark

Source: Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark

“I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.”

Ifs Giving Heart Helping Waiting Rooms Calm Waiting Rooms

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.”

“Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.”

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Author:Josh Ross

“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.”

Ifs Real Done Might Purpose Waiting Rooms Common Serious Constant Doing Nothing Rigor Waiting Rooms Purposelessness Rigor Mortis

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.”

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Author:Joy Fielding

“Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?”

Waiting Rooms Ominous Waiting Rooms

Author:Jenna Morasca

“Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.”

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Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?”

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Author:George Carlin

“Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room”

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Author:Simon Hughes

“The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.”

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Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.”

“Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“Across the nation, thousands of people are lining up in hospital waiting rooms, out the doors, down the steps, around the corners, and behind the hedges, waiting for their inoculations. Here's another idea for avoiding the flu: DON'T stand outside in the cold for hours around lots of other people.”

People Ideas Nations Waiting Hours Rooms Behinds Steps Doors Cold Corners Hospitals Avoiding Standing Out Flu Waiting Rooms Lining Up

Author:Jon Stewart

“I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where you can meet and communicate, where you can share or receive knowledge, where you can relax and recover. They are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, as of a few years ago, zoos. All of the places have a purpose, as for the most part do the things within them.”

Years Purpose Waiting Church Space Rooms Share Years Ago Library Photograph University Various Communicate Relax Hotel Museums Zoos Waiting Rooms Spas

Author:Candida Hofer

“Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.”

Ifs Men Doe Light Film Political Asks Waiting Walks Rooms Situation Office Sitting Smoke Light Up Waiting Rooms

Author:Sydney Pollack

“There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.”

“I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.”

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Author:Lorin Stein

“While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.”

People Feels Children Together Young Mother Opportunity Waiting Community Rooms Greater Standing Our Children Prison Working Together Hopeless Our Community Turmoil Waiting Rooms Fatherless

Author:T.I.

“How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“I went in for an audition [for As Good As It Gets], but the audition was with James L. Brooks. I was the first girl in that morning, and there was a whole waiting room of girls waiting to read for it. So I did my audition, and he asked me to step outside. So I stepped outside, and when he asked me to come back in, he looked at me, and he said, "Well, I'm very excited to work with you on set." And I was, like, "What?" I thought it was a Hollywood blow-off.”

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Author:Julie Benz

“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.”

Waiting Rooms Marriage Waiting Rooms

Author:Mike Myers

“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.'”

Ifs Waiting Lines Rooms Cold Comfortable My Favorite Phones Weather These Days Airplane Fireplaces Cold Weather Waiting Rooms Waiting In Line

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“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.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.”

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Book:Practical Demonkeeping

Source: Practical Demonkeeping

“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.”

Source: The Plague

“His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.”

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Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”

“She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.”

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Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.”

People Stills Faces Waiting Rooms Hair Right Now Kissing Twenties Related Foreheads Kiss Me Wisps Waiting Rooms

Author:Gayle Forman

“Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.”

Waiting Rooms Broke Impressed Kill Me Wrists Waiting Rooms

Book:Bitten

Source: Bitten

“What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.”

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Book:Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.”

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Book:Super Sad True Love Story

Source: Super Sad True Love Story

“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.”

Years Soul Body Spirit Stars Waiting Rooms Century Wind Hundred Sitting Essence Unity Philosopher Contemplation Waiting Rooms

Book:The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

“If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.”

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Author:Jules Renard

“You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.”

Thinking Want Feels May Waiting Rooms Planets Taste Mere Fleeting Rest Of Your Life Euphoria Waiting Rooms

Author:Jerry Stahl

“Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.”

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Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

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

People Waiting Rooms Calm Terror Waiting Rooms

Author:John C. McGinley

“Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.”

War Waiting Rooms Poetry Is Waiting Rooms

Author:Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

“I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.”

Ideas Self Waiting Rooms Eating Dignity Separation Self Respect Waiting Rooms Self Respect And Dignity

Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."”

People Stills Waiting Rooms Saws Office Red Asking Democratic Chinese Restaurants Smoking Hospitals Asking Questions Waiting Rooms Ashtrays

Author:David Sedaris

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