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Quotes About Waiting

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.
~ Abby Brammell
I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.
~ Amanda Marshall
Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.
~ Annie E. Clark
What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
~ Chris Messina
The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.
~ David Levithan
People are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, O.K.? That's why people don't want to invest in America.
~ Donald Trump
It's getting late have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here, It's seven o'clock and I want to rock, Want to get a belly full of beer...
~ Elton John
When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.
~ Frederick Lenz
Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of wilful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls.
~ Steven Erikson
Time promised everything and delivered nothing.
~ Steven Erikson
THE VEIL OF CIVILISATION was thin indeed, so easily torn away to reveal depravity waiting beneath, waiting, as such things always did, for the first hint of turbulence.
~ Steven Erikson
Whoever waited outside was impatient – thunder rang imperiously through the room even as the old man reached for the bar.
~ Steven Erikson
The voracious insects waited for storms like this one, then rode the winds in search of prey.
~ Steven Erikson
If I am their god, why don't they listen to anything I say? " "Maybe they are but waiting for you to say the right thing." "Really? And what would that be, you fat oaf?" "Well, whatever it is they want to hear, of course.
~ Steven Erikson
What gesture will you make, to announce to all the true colour of your soul? How long will we all wait for you to find your courage?
~ Steven Erikson
Now the search is all that matters. I know there will come a time when I find my book, but it is far in the future. And I know without doubt that it will not be today. Yet a strange hope remains. A hope that somehow, something, God, the demon, Ahura Mazda, someone, will see I'm trying. I'm really trying, and that will be enough.
~ Steven L. Peck
Cecie keeps telling him she'd like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.
~ Steven Sherrill
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.
~ Steven Wright
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.
~ Steven Wright
We touch, and the link is forged. Clawing the residue of Beth's failing strength in my grasp, I align our souls with the child's. I can even see her name, as if it marks every cell of her body. Rayojini. Rayo. Daughter. She had been waiting for us. She is the one, the only possible one.
~ Storm Constantine
You were the one that led them a merry dance. Now, I expect, they will want an explanation. I myself am waiting to hear it.
~ Storm Constantine
Daniel was coming to him. Whatever else these people thought or felt was irrelevant.
~ Storm Constantine
Let her be. We must wait for the time when she's mature enough to take on the role we have created for her. If we intervene before that time, we could ruin everything.
~ Storm Constantine
I felt like they were loitering around in the hope one of us would sup from them later. Perhaps we would find it difficult to leave until we had obliged them.
~ Storm Constantine