“Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.” YearsHas BeensWaitingLandJokesYears AgoSellingShopsMarsCoca ColaOld Jokes Author:Chris Abani
“When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.” WantYearsEnoughWantedNightFallThreeFeltWaitingHoursSleepSimpleBedYears AgoFalling In LoveSevenGuitarEightHanging OutGet BackThree YearsHad EnoughEnough Sleep Author:Damien Rice
“My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.” KnowsWayYearsIdeasDifferentUsedWaitingHalfYears AgoMy WayHalf Way Author:Sigmund Freud
“Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn't wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsWellsTwoDifferentCharacterFilmActorsStuffWaitingCareersPlansHappenedInvolvedDirectorsProjectsYears AgoDecidedSevenAvailableSeven Years Author:Michael Rooker
“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.” MenYearsStillsTurnsWaitingRoomsSeaPicksYears AgoDown AndTrainEastMagazinesWanderBoardsFiftyShopsChairsThreadSheetsDentistDrillsBarbersWaiting RoomsTrimmingCockpitBarber Shop Author:E. B. White
“I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.” TryingYearsFirstsWaitingCitiesNew YorkYears AgoTablesActressesNew York CityWaitressWaiting Tables Author:Kim Dickens
“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.” YearsPurposeWaitingChurchSpaceRoomsShareYears AgoLibraryPhotographUniversityVariousCommunicateRelaxHotelMuseumsZoosWaiting RoomsSpas Author:Candida Hofer
“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 career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.” IfsWayYearsHas BeensRememberMovingWaitingCareersMonthsSmartYears AgoFestivalsRemember MeEdinburgh Author:Bill Burr
“We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.” PeopleYearsDoeRememberWaitingSawsDirectorsOceanHundredYears AgoStandingTablesCoffeeBeachShoreWhalesSurfStood UpBrianStanding ThereScarface Author:Al Pacino
“And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.” YearsLightEyeFeltWaitingBehindsKindnessLonelinessTearsSonYears AgoStandingFilledLongingFingersDepthGentleRememberedMidstTrafficHer EyesChinsDentistTraffic Light Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.” KnowsYearsHappensRememberWaitingHappenedMonthsYears AgoSeriesFalsehoodWornWorn Out Author:Kij Johnson
“I take it that's where you met Todd.' 'Yep. Almost five years ago. Can you believe it?' 'Five years! You and Todd should be the poster couple for the 'Love Waits' campaign.' Christy laughed. 'It didn't seem that long. A lot has happened during those five years. But I do agree that true love is worth the wait. I'd wait another five years for Todd if I had to. He's the only man for me. Ever.” IfsMenShouldYearsBelieveLongSeemsWaitingLove IsFiveHappenedCoupleMetsYears AgoAgreeCampaignsFive YearsLaughedPostersTrue Love IsWorth The WaitChristy Miller Author:Robin Jones Gunn
“I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born and born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensStillsHandsTogetherLyingDiesWaitingBornSleepYears AgoRiversCrossesWake UpBreatheLiftsShoreDividesPrincessLeaving MeWithout YouThink Of YouBorn AgainWill HerondaleAnother LifeJemClockworkJem CarstairsClockwork Princess Author:Cassandra Clare
“It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.” YearsFirstsFearWaitingMastersTenYears AgoTwentiesProcrastinationAttemptingFear Of Failure Author:Paulo Coelho
“Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.” IfsKnowsWayShouldYearsMayDoeMadeShowsLightRememberScienceStarsWaitingHalfMillionsTheoryYears AgoAccountsAbsolutesFiftyGet AwaySarcasticGoing AwayZeroMinistryTemperatureProposeRocketsSteersComplacentLight Years Author:Robert Frost