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Quotes About Impatience

antivuelco. Como suponía, Banks no tardó
~ Michael Connelly
She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed.
~ Michael Cunningham
Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar had not been opened up to the date to which it should have been.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Is there any more futile, soul-irradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner?
~ Michael Pollan
Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.
~ Nat Wolff
I can barely sit in one place for five minutes.
~ Rishi Kapoor
I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
~ David Eagleman
Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.
~ David Coverdale
If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'
~ Robert Webb
I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show.
~ Fred Willard
I wish our love was right now.
~ Megan McCafferty
Taking the cure is going to be difficult for you. You have red hair—lots of energy, you're quick, active, impatient. All bad for tuberculosis. Discipline will be hard for you. The cure of tuberculosis is all discipline.
~ Betty MacDonald
Ramona could not understand why grown-ups always talked about how quickly children grew up. Ramona thought growing up was the slowest thing there was, slower even than waiting for Christmas to come. She had been waiting years just to get to kindergarten, and the last half hour was the slowest part of all.
~ Beverly Cleary
Mrs. Quimby nibbled at her salad and glanced at her watch.
~ Beverly Cleary
Ramona was not interested in tools or thinking things over and figuring things out. She was interested in results. Fast.
~ Beverly Cleary
To an American shopper there are just three spans of time: now, tomorrow at the very latest, and we'll look elsewhere.
~ Bill Bryson
When you're onstage, part of you wants to be off as fast as possible. And once you're offstage, everything is in anticipation of the next time you're on.
~ Bill Irwin
Dad says that the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it - Calvin
~ Bill Watterson
Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin
~ Bill Watterson
I wait and ache.
~ Sylvia Plath
I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks
~ Sylvia Plath
i have so many books i am perishing to read in my bookcase. hours-and-hours-and-hours- and hours.
~ Sylvia Plath
What shall we do tomorrow What shall we ever do? We shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door
~ T.S. Eliot
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
~ T.S. Eliot