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Quotes About Impatience

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
~ Terry Pratchett
I was a terrible waiter.
~ Billy Eichner
A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
~ Michael Frayn
It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.
~ Drew Pomeranz
I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.
~ Til Schweiger
Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
~ Reba McEntire
I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
~ Kate Moss
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
~ Andre Leon Talley
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
~ Ben Elton
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
~ Julian Baggini
I'm so impatient. I can't even stand waiting for a cab, and I'm always early for everything. In training, it means I want to run my personal best every session - but it takes time.
~ Jessica Ennis-Hill
So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.
~ Norm MacDonald
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
~ Ritchie Blackmore
No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
~ Heston Blumenthal
The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.
~ Lee Hazlewood
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
~ Isabel Allende
Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
~ Bill Hader
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.
~ Jay Kay
I get bored very easily.
~ Scott Patterson
In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.
~ Alia Bhatt
People get bored very quickly.
~ Jonathan Anderson
I get bored really fast.
~ Jim Norton