“I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope you story is rich with characters, rich with friends and conversation. I hope you know some people who carry you, and I hope you have the honor of carrying them. I hope that there's beauty in your memories, and I hope it doesn't haunt you. And if it does, then I hope there is someone who will walk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.” PeopleIfsKnowsDoeMadeMatterCharacterStoriesDreamNightFightingWaitingMemoriesSleepWalksRichHonorPromiseConversationStealingYour DreamsSunriseOur Memories Author:Jamie Tworkowski
“What's exciting about the Bay Area, is that people are not waiting for permission from the industry to make movies - unlike Los Angeles or New York, where you can get stuck into that desire of raising a big budget, or working with the studios.” PeopleBigsDesireWaitingNew YorkIndustryAreasExcitingStudiosStuckBudgetsLos AngelesPermissionBay Area Author:Matthew Jacobs
“Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.” PeopleGamesWaitingMediaFrontsBotherSneakLockersBad Games Author:Derek Jeter
“All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.” PeopleKindIdeasEndsSelfBigsDiesHouseWaitingMajorsSittingFatsFrighteningPublishingBiographiesSlapCompletionImpositionPublishing House Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.” PeopleShowsFilmWaitingTvsShotsExcitingCrowdsReactionsHurry Up And Wait Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“People only attack when they see weakness or when they think that someone is ashamed of it or embarrassed and they can't wait to stick it to 'em.” PeopleThinkingWaitingWeaknessSticksAshamedEmsEmbarrassed Author:Dax Shepard
“People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.” PeopleIfsWayYearsFirstsRunningNextWaitingProgressShapesResolutionNew YearDocumentsNext YearParametersNew Year's ResolutionsGetting In Shape Author:Jack LaLanne
“If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.” PeopleIfsKindPersonsDoneStoriesJobsArtistReadingWaitingEnjoyComfortableDrawsTrainVisualsChairsStationsEngineersCarpenterMake Someone Happy Author:Jack Kirby
“There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.” PeopleWayWritingInspirationHappensWould BeWaitingPerfectPaySittingAdvantageProductivityProductiveRoutineSitting AroundPerfect ThingsSitting Around Waiting Author:Woody Allen
“Sometimes I get this gut feeling about people - maybe I sense a hidden agenda or that they care for the money more than the message. I wish that I'd listen to that feeling instead of waiting for the truth to rear its ugly head. I'm a smart girl. I'm loyal. But sometimes I'm too loyal. I'm not loyal enough to myself.” PeopleSometimesEnoughFeelingsCareGirlWishWaitingMessagesSmartUglyGutsAgendasLoyalGut FeelingsSmart Girl Author:Lady Gaga
“Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.” PeopleFeelsFactsFormWaitingSpecialFashionSickDenyBuyingFeel BetterEscapismSpecial Things Author:Tom Ford
“I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingYearsLooksNextWaitingCareersSawsProjectsUnderstoodTypecasting Author:Chris Colfer
“I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.” PeopleGivingKindWould BeWaitingHoursRecordsPlanetsAvailableTapeLeaksBack In The Day Author:John Darnielle
“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.” PeopleNightDiesWaitingRoomsDyingBedDiseaseDiedHospitalsUnnecessaryWaiting Rooms Author:Richard Branson
“More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look.” PeopleGivingShouldLooksWaitingRealizingMinutesBenefitsFindingsResearchHeyMarijuanaHemp Author:Willie Nelson
“The streets helps you a lot in music, cause it let's you know that you can't trust nobody and that nobody's gonna wait for you. You can't just sit there with dope in your pocket and think that people are gonna come to you. You gotta put the product out there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHelpingCausesWaitingStreetsProductsPocketsDopeTrust Nobody Author:Schoolboy Q
“If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.” PeopleIfsYearsWaitingResolveProgrammesBoycott Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“You know when you go into a restaurant, and it gets busy and they start a waiting list, and they start calling out names, "DuFresnes, party of two." They say again, "DuFresnes, party of two." But then if no one answers, they'll just go to the next name, "Bush, party of three." Yeah, but what happened to the DuFresnes? No one seems to care. Who can eat at a time like this? People are missing! And they're hungry! That's a double whammy! "Bush, search party of three!" You can eat once you find the DuFresnes!” PeopleIfsKnowsTwoHumorSeemsCareFunnyThreeNextNamesWaitingAnswersPartyHappenedMissingCallingYeahBusyListsHungryRestaurants Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindDoeNamesWaitingLinesAstronautAutographs Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.” PeopleBelieveUsedWaitingLinesBoringLoopsWaiting Around Author:Al Pacino
“I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].” PeopleThinkingWantWritingSchoolRememberChoicesWaitingHalfEmotionalHigh SchoolSittingMiserableIronicNostalgicClassmatesWant To See You Author:Sarah Dessen
“I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.” PeopleWellsAsksWaitingFrontsMaterialsCameras Author:Larenz Tate
“By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.” PeopleThinkingPersonsProblemWaitingLinesAthleteGet AwayGoing AwayElitesSkipLaid BackElite Athletes Author:Andre Johnson
“I don't believe there are any more blockbusters films. Back in the day with music, people would wait up all night for the music store to open to get their favorite CD, and if it were sold out they would come back again.” PeopleIfsBelieveFilmNightWaitingDon't BelieveStoresAll NightCdsBack AgainBack In The DayBlockbusterUp All NightSold Out Author:Darius McCrary
“Consciousness is anything you define it as. I tell people instead of waiting, just take any definition that you like, and use that, and run with it! So I don't think the issue is that we don't know what consciousness is. The issue is we don't have a consensus on what consciousness is. Far from it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseRunningWaitingConsciousnessIssuesDefinitionsConsensus Author:Stanley Krippner
“People are too afraid of uptown. A lot of people will tell you, like, "Don't go to Harlem. You can never go there. 'Cause as soon as you get there, they kill you." That's what people think. As soon as you arrive in Harlem, someone just stabs you in the face right away. That's people's image of Harlem: just everyone standing around waiting for lost white people to kill all day. "Did you see any? I didn't either."” PeopleThinkingFunnyFacesLostCausesWaitingWhiteComedyStandingHarlemUptown Author:Louis C. K.
“Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.” PeopleShouldLongWaitingFoodHotTablesWarmSoupVulgarHot Soup Author:Charlie Day
“No offense to the other people that we work with, but we spend 14-hour days with each other. You're dying for some sort of new rhythm to play with and another person to have fun with. It's like, "Oh, I can't wait to hang out with Zoe Lister Jones today and not deal with that Jake Johnson."” PeoplePersonsI CanPlayTodayFunWaitingHoursDealsDyingRhythmHaving FunHanging OutOffenseJohnsonJake Author:Max Greenfield
“At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsBelieveChildrenLongWarCountryMomentsHomeCareWaitingCommunityLeadershipPolicyNeededPeriodsTerrorHumanitarianAcceptedBoatDecentAustraliaWealthyEthicalCampsVietnamAustralianVietnam WarLong Wait Author:Malcolm Fraser
“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.” PeopleFacesNightWaitingShootingBirthdayMaskFarmsAgricultureOne NightTentsWearing A Mask Author:Stephen Hopkins
“If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.” PeopleIfsIdeasSeemsHappensWaitingFunding Author:Salman Khan
“I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.” PeopleBelieveNextI BelieveWaitingDifferencesGreat People Author:Michael Gerber
“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.” PeopleMindLittlesKidsWaitingChangeActingTalkingCreativeFourMinutesMonthsSixCoachesQuittingLeagueCoachingSix MonthsJuiceGreat TimesLittle LeagueTalking About MeCreative Juices Author:James Caan
“What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.” PeopleWantI CanIdeasPlayMomentsJoyWaitingEnjoyKnowingNotesGuitarNo IdeaTunesMute Author:John Mayer
“I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.” PeopleWellsPlayUsedWaitingProgressExcuseFinishedOrchestraWork In Progress Author:Chris Lowe
“Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSaidFilmStrongWaitingFictionWorryMinutesSmartReactionsPulp Author:Eli Roth
“You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.” PeopleWellsHappensFilmWaitingSituationCareersLuckyBest ThingsSensitiveWow Author:Eli Roth
“I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsHappensWantedNextWaitingWatchesSickScarySadistic Author:Eli Roth
“I think the biggest shift is the way people look at and have access to fashion. It's already old the minute you've seen it, and we've already moved on. Fashion has become very in and out. Back in the days when I started, you would wait for Vogue to come out, and that is where you would see what people wore that month. Now we are looking at what someone is wearing this second.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksWaitingMinutesFashionMonthsMovedAccessVogueMoved On Author:Matthew Williamson
“I've always been a guy that doesn't do well waiting for people to say, "You can act." It's always been a part of me.” PeopleWellsGuyWaiting Author:Matthew Lillard
“I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.” PeopleNeedsSometimesActorsWaitingMorningForeverInfiniteCrowdsAdmireGet UpMakeupDragTrailers Author:Roman Polanski
“Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.” PeopleKnowsI CanSchoolGirlWaitingGoneGradesFourthFourth Grade Author:Anton Yelchin
“I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.” PeopleThinkingLongWaitingResultsNumbersTalkingSituationOur LivesPeriodsSittingAdvantageTestsCancerDelightLabsRight DirectionSitting AroundLong Periods Of Time Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.” PeopleWaitingLinesTakenArmsThirdsPlasticSan FranciscoColumnsSpineChroniclesWaiting In LineTripods Author:Alan Abel
“Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.” PeopleKindActorsWaitingRoomsActingBreakCuttingDirectorsDirectCategoriesBreaking DownActing In Movies Author:Dustin Hoffman
“People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.” PeopleMomentsBigsWaitingForgetSpecialEventsBuildingSpringThoughtfulnessGreat EventsSpecial Moments Author:Meher Baba
“You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.” PeopleMindBookCareUsedReadingWaitingI CareCollectibles Author:Neil Gaiman
“Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries.” PeopleIfsThreeWaitingHoursWillingDislikeMcdonaldsMoscowFriesWilling To Wait Author:Mark Patinkin
“A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.” PeopleHappensWaitingMovementInspiredDo It Yourself Author:Gloria Steinem
“Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.” PeopleWantEndsSometimesDoneDreamWaitingGoalSacrificeGet It Done Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston