Best Waiting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Writing Children Long Wanted Waiting Support Long Time Most Wanted

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?”

Needs Waiting Enemy Republican Wings Obamacare

Author:Michelle Malkin

“As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.”

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Author:Nong ?uc Manh

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

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Author:Rachel McAdams

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

Kids Night Waiting Masters Excited Screens Sunday Wednesday Preview Sunday Night

Author:Rory McIlroy

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

Men Fighting Strong Fun Waiting Sides Roles He Man Strong Women Typical Blonde Iconic

Author:Rose McGowan

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

Knows I Can Ends Home Film Three Left Waiting Four Months Complaining Left And Right

Author:Tobey Maguire

“I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.”

Bits Waiting Attitude

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.”

Want Writing I Can Ideas Waiting Painting Activity Sitting Staring Productive Trailers Hurry Up And Wait

Author:Lucas Neff

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

Knows Sometimes Actors Waiting Offers Projects Agents Managers Who We Are Submit

Author:Navid Negahban

“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.”

People World Looks Sometimes Whole Feelings Reading Waiting Loses Talking Morning This World Happenings My Friends Journalist

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

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

Ifs Want Looks I Can Today Next Waiting Week Tomorrow Absolutes Next Week Frenzy

Author:Buck Owens

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

Firsts Might Wanted Waiting Roles Dad My Dad Disappointment Auditions

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?”

Should Faces Waiting Term Too Much Asking Barack Carving Mount Rushmore Asking Too Much

Author:Ron Fournier

“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.”

Years I Can Play Waiting Roles Four Tvs My Friends Canada Call Me Four Years Waiting Around

Author:Sandra Oh

“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

Author:Jackson Browne

“Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.”

Waiting Plans Crisis Come Up

Author:Phil McGraw

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

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Author:Lynda Barry

“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.”

Littles Kids Waiting Baby Shoes Calm Storm Before The Storm

Author:Ana Ortiz

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

Thinking Years Actors Left Waiting Four Changed Fit Moved Four Years Cleveland

Author:Monica Potter

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

Knows Waiting Pay Attention Know How Tvs Office Boxes Rating Box Office

Author:Oren Peli

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

Want Actors Waiting Steps Produce Son Direct Auditions

Author:Elizabeth Perkins

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

World Firsts Ideas Different Real Would Be School Romance Girl Waiting Sleep Novel Sweet Hero High School Decided Moved Driven Real World Valleys Romance Novel Microcosm Sleeping Beauty

Author:Francine Pascal

“I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.”

Way Years Film Hate House Waiting Sleep Half Crazy Fans Horror Sitting Dating Cute Girlfriend Terrified Bathroom Weeping My Girlfriend Horror Film Hold Me Half A Year Sitting Up

Author:Jared Padalecki

“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.”

People Kids Waiting Issues Married Fertility

Author:Bill Rancic

“Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.”

People Giving Should House Waiting Concepts Give Me Believer Panic Panic Attacks

Author:Nikki Reed

“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.”

Stories Lasts Stuff Waiting Shots Comic Dawn Relief Great Times 1930s Eclipse Jacob Had A Great Time Breaking Dawn Comic Relief

Author:Nikki Reed

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

Knows Sometimes Character Moving Young Waiting Water Wife Fronts Instance Farms Yards Moving Away

Author:Ron Rash

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

Ifs Writing Sometimes Eye Able Hate Waiting Sticks Convinced Pencils

Author:Ron Rash

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

Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Waiting Half Leader Steps Plans Late Innovation Customers Consumers Too Late Business Leaders Good Business

Author:Stuart Rose

“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.”

Asks Strong Waiting Corners Pursue Grandmother Extensions My Grandmother Going Strong

Author:Compay Segundo

“She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.”

Stills I Can Dream Waiting Sleep Love You Tonight Oscars I Love You Going To Sleep Talk To Me Acceptance Speech Toastmasters

Author:Jamie Foxx

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.”

Writing Ideas Hard Dream Remember Waiting Advice Negative Silent Data Capability Gathering Kipling

Author:Rose Tremain

“Never make a move until you find yourself making it, because it might be too soon. It's always better to wait. Whenever you're not sure, wait, and in time you'll find yourself doing it. To act before then would be a mistake.”

Wisdom Might Would Be Moving Waiting Mistake Buddhism Not Sure Finding Yourself Make A Move

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.”

Ifs Wisdom Waiting Buddhism Ease Finding Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.”

Ifs Knows Feels Wisdom Waiting Buddhism Uncertain Feels Right

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Happiness Faces Waiting Rooms Buddhism Your Face Smile On Your Face Waiting Rooms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.”

Feels Happens Waiting Hard Work Harder Complaining Work Harder

Author:Randy Pausch

“I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.”

Waiting Sides Behinds Red Standing Theater Boards Restaurants Awkward Plates Intimidated Entrances Conductor Waiter Hovering Staircases

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“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.”

Men Said Waiting White Growing Up Saws Growing Discrimination White Man Segregation Racial Discrimination

Author:John Lewis

“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.”

Kind Bigs Waiting Records Changed Industry Labels Contracts Music Industry Record Labels

Author:Matthew Sweet

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

Years Mean Shows Heaven Waiting Acting Fame Singing Dancing Musical Cried Going To Work Singing Dancing

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Made Waiting Decision Thought Provoking Wrong Things Decisions Made

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“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.”

Sometimes Waiting Worst Produce Disease Stones Patient Painful Passing Passings Speculation Calculus Kidneys Gout Kidney Disease

Author:Thomas Sydenham

“I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.”

Firsts Stills Play Bigs Waiting Hollywood Superhero Paychecks

Author:Miles Teller

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

Feels Has Beens Ends Young Fun Waiting Enjoy Youth Like You Enjoyed Having Fun The End Of The Day Polite Sibling Respectful Upbringing My Siblings

Author:Tinie Tempah

“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.”

Waiting Terrible One Day Exciting Smell Saved Sat Kitchen Bags Sunday Chickens Realising Vegetables Plastic New Things Cried Mum Frozen Plastic Bags

Author:Carol Vorderman

“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.”

World Children Real Problem Happens Eye Waiting Nice Her Eyes Real Problems Gloss

Author:Eddie Vedder

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