Quotes About Waiting

It is my one great skill. I was never much good at athletics or mathematics, but even as a boy, I possessed unnatural patience. I would wait with my mother while she got her hair styled. I would sit in the chair and wait for hours, no magazine, no toys, not even swinging my legs back and forth. All the mothers were very impressed.

when the hairy wildmen who lived there spoke, their words froze and their companions would have to wait for spring to hear what had been said.

He slips out the door and Konstance sits with her back against the wall and Mother paces, chin jutted, forehead creased, and Konstance goes to the door and presses it.

There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.

Fishing is about time, he tells Dorotea. It's about how much time you can keep your line in the water. Can't catch fish if your line isn't in the water.

is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.

Antony and other supporters of Caesar fled to their commander, who was waiting at the little

was kept waiting in an anteroom and was admitted only after a long delay.

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

he waited for one load of passengers to get off and another to get on, he would never see the

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.

I knew I just gotta wait for my chances in the game and I'm gonna prove what I am able to do when I get on the floor.

In most respects, the time has flown by. In others, it seems as though it wasn't moving fast enough.

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and as a writer, you can just pick up your computer and start whenever you want. That is really freeing.

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It's more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.

It's very frustrating not being on the air.