Quotes About Impatience

When you spend a lot of time, like I do, just standing around and waiting, or being moved from place to place, every minute gets consumed by something someone else has set up for you. And it's not like I'm always in a beautiful place wearing something gorgeous.

I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

When you get drafted and sign a large contract, people expect results right away.

I shake my legs constantly when I'm sitting crossed legged.

The longest break I have taken in my life was 14 days. On the 15th day, I started getting impatient to start work again.

I wait up front like some asshole whose mom is picking out his suit for prom night right in front of all the mean girls from school.

A full week cooped up in the hotel? Just shoot me now.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.

Bird 1: This is the wrong story. Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.

After a half hour of sitting and staring at Mister Lewis sitting on his box, Patrick heard the sound of an engine

Mrs. Givings's cosmetics seemed always to have been applied in a frenzy of haste, of impatience to get the whole silly business over and done with, and she was constantly in motion, a trim, leather-skinned woman in her fifties whose eyes expressed a religious belief in the importance of keeping busy.

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.

But she didn't listen, she was in the bathroom, she was getting dressed, she was putting on make-up, she was getting ready. Getting ready.

Chen didn't get back to the lab until almost six, only to find Harriet haunting the gun room like the Ghost of Christmas Future. Pike was certain to be impatient with the delay and no doubt would be growing angrier and angrier—at John.

I'll be there in five." Eight minutes later I parked in the parking garage, climbed the four flights to my floor, and walked down the hall. The building has an elevator, but tough guys climbed stairs. Picture me bristling with manliness. Also, impatience. Cindy's door was closed. The door to the little insurance agency across from my office was closed. My door was open.

Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.

It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

What the hell are you stopping for, asshole?" Freemont hollered at the car in front of them. "People usually stop for red lights. You should try it sometime.

For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.

can't help but see the wariness, the effort, the impatience. I can't help but see two people together out of a sense of genetic duty, doomed already to bewilder and disappoint each other, each honor-bound to defy the other.

I can't help but see the wariness, the effort, the impatience. I can't help but see two people together out of a sense of genetic duty, doomed already to bewilder and disappoint each other, each honor-bound to defy the other.

You are the devil to talk to, Rachel, he said curtly. Will you shut up and listen?

Here I am. Standing with my watch in hand which I'm going to pawn. So in with you. You hungry sinner.