Quotes About Waiting

Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

While being late in L.A. is common because of traffic, more than 20 minutes is too much.

Traffic: Sit there. Sit. Occasionally move your foot from the brake and crawl forward, then put it back. That's all you do for hours. It's very calming.

Everyone can relate to being stuck in a traffic jam.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.

I do love acting the two seconds that you are in front of the camera - and this is going to sound like I'm complaining, and I don't want that because I'm blessed to even have a job - but there is a lot of down-time when you're just sitting in your trailer.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

I don't really like going out for dinner. It's way better to not have to wait for food... It's quite boring. I don't cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I'm more of a transferer than a cook.

When I'm abroad it's almost like I'm in a transit lounge. I'm only comfortable when I know the date of departure.

went back to her crossword puzzle - still looking for a five-letter word that meant "to believe in something without evidence". She sat down in the old wooden rocker. She was patient; it would come to her – in time – in the Lord's good time. She closed her eyes, and she rocked.

Reality can wait.

Nature is wild. Run to her. She is waiting for you.

These times of waiting on God for the fullness of the Spirit are times when He searches the heart and tests the mind (Jer. 17:10).

As a Tibetan saying goes: "Tomorrow or the next life—which comes first, we never know.

it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.

If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me.

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.

The introvert's dilemma is that we might not get a lot of invitations for the kind of socializing we like best--small, mellow gatherings. In other words, the kind of socializing other introverts like to do. Because, let's face it: We're introverts. We're all at home waiting to be invited to do introvert things. Which means, of course, that none of us are getting the invitations we crave. It's an introvert standoff.

Jacinda, Sorry, but I had to leave town for a farm thing. Try not to knock any other teachers unconscious while I'm gone. See you soon (but not soon enough), Will

Jacinda, Sorry, but I had to leave town for a family thing. Try not to knock any other teachers unconscious while I'm gone. See you soon (but not soon enough), Will