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Quotes About Impatience

This better be good!"said Kara
~ Rachel Roberts
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
~ Ralph Novak
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.
~ Raymond Carver
My problem with eighties songs is they take too long to get to the chorus.
~ Dr. Luke
The next hour was three hours long
~ Raymond Chandler
I needed a drink and was in a hurry to get one. I
~ Raymond Chandler
I drove back to Hollywood feeling like a short length of chewed string. It was too early to eat, and too hot. I turned on the fan in my office. It didn't make the air any cooler, just a little more lively.
~ Raymond Chandler
Despair is also often premature: it's a form of impatience as well as of certainty.
~ Rebecca Solnit
But sometimes waiting can be murder…
~ Rhonda Nelson
Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.
~ Richard Ford
I am chewing my nails off to the elbow, like Noel Coward's lady.
~ Julia Child
be honest, he sometimes felt a creeping impatience for his father to quit the scene, leaving John as his uncle's direct heir.
~ Julian Fellowes
You don't remember what you said to me when I was inside you? She frowned with concentration while she thought about it. Hurry up?
~ Julie Garwood
looked at his watch. Eight-thirty. Way too early
~ Julie Smith
gelozia patetic? a oamenilor ÅŸi ner?bdarea lor în faÅ£a fericirii altora.
~ K?b? Abe
people's pathetic jealousy and impatience with others' happiness.
~ K?b? Abe
Don't let me do this! As always, his plea received no answer. Half an hour later he entered
~ Karen Hancock
Sophia stood staring blankly up the stairs for an entire minute before it dawned on her that he'd used the kiss to befuddle her. Blast it all! She fumed to herself as she walked to the front window and stationed herself there. Time went by. The clock ticked. A bee buzzed against the windowpane. Dust settled. After thirty minutes had passed, Sophia had had enough. She gave the empty lane one last glance, then went upstairs.
~ Karen Hawkins
At this rate, the only way she was going to get laid was to crawl up a chicken's ass and wait.
~ Karin Slaughter
The time was already creeping up on three o'clock. Faith had been awake since three this morning. All she could think about right now was walking through her front door, taking off her bra and reading escalator fatality stories until it was dark enough to go to bed.
~ Karin Slaughter
Claire laughed because it was easier than telling him to brush his hair out of his eyes and go back to college. She checked the time on her phone again. Paul was now twelve minutes late. She started catastrophizing: carjacking, hit by a bus, struck by a falling piece of airplane fuselage, abducted by a madman.
~ Karin Slaughter
the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'.
~ Karl Pilkington
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
~ James Russell Lowell
I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
~ Loretta Young