Quotes About Impatience

I didn't want to be a retailer. I hated to wait on people.

The generation we live in, we're constantly entertained - we turn our heads this way, and there's something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.

Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth

Someday, I'm sure, dreams will come true. But when? Why not now? Why not?

Impatience [...] is a twentieth-century virtue. At twenty, when they saw, or thought they saw, what life could be, the sum of bliss it held, the endless conquests it allowed, they realised they would not have the strength to wait. Like anyone else, they could have made it; but all they wanted was to have it made. That is probably the sense in which they were what are commonly called intellectuals.

Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.

Best thing she could do. Going to take her to stay with my grandmother.' 'By Jove!' exclaimed Ferdy, much struck. 'Devilish good notion of yours, Gil! As long as she ain't dead.' 'Of course she ain't dead!' said Mr Ringwood, with a touch of impatience. 'How could I take Kitten to stay with her if she was?

Rot his black soul! fumed Rupert. The devil's in it now and no mistake. A horse, Fletcher, a horse! Horse sir? Burn it, would I want a cow? Horse, man, and quickly!

It has felt like the World Cup was never going to come for me.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

Lord knows we've been guilty of getting too excited about a title reign only to see it last one or two fights.

To be honest, I really can't lie on the beach for more than an hour.

To be honest, I don't love the getting-ready-for-red-carpet thing. I like when it's done, the final product, but the actual doing of all that is not my favorite 'cause I'm kind of impatient, and I don't like to be doted on. I'm a very independent, 'I'll do it myself' sort of personality.

There was nothing to do and not enough time to do nothing in.

I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour.

Worry is impatience for the next horror.

The Barbers had said they would arrive by three. It was like waiting to begin

Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

We don't have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon." "You've got a magician named Mel?