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Quotes About Impatience

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I'm not very good at sitting still.
~ Scott D. Anthony
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
~ Helen Mirren
You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.
~ Derek Landy
I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
~ Saffron Burrows
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
~ Mae West
I hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon. (on wanting to be Man City manager)
~ Stuart Pearce
If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?
~ Rick Riordan
Yes, about ten minutes.
~ Duke of Wellington
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
~ Jim Butcher, Small Favor
Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?
~ George Carlin
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.
~ Steven Wright
What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.
~ Dave Barry
Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'
~ Jimmy Fallon
Atty's eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!
~ Tricia Murphy, Aine
Get out of bed and feed me already, person!
~ Rachel Cohn
I'm coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!"-Skye yelling back to Hagan.
~ J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.
~ Ash Gray, Qorth
All right, I'll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
~ Mark Twain
Stop the world, I wanna get on!
~ Leopold "Leo" Bloom
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
~ Janette Oke