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Quotes About Waiting

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
~ Tom Selleck
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
~ Ken Kesey
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
~ Ian Fleming
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
~ Dwight Yoakam
I'm a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.
~ Jazz Jennings
I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.
~ Chris Lowe
We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.
~ Wolf Blitzer
You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.
~ Mel Giedroyc
I wait for death and journalists.
~ Jeanne Calment
You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.
~ Dave Lombardo
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
~ Tony Curtis
Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
~ Mario Andretti
How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
~ Bob Uecker
I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.
~ Michelle Forbes
I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
~ Gwen Stefani
All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.
~ Mark McGrath
Scrambled eggs are so simple, but they don't wait or taste better cold!
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
~ Dolley Madison
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
~ Countee Cullen
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
~ Hart Crane
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
~ Francois Rabelais
Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.
~ Anne Hathaway
I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
~ Otto Frank
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
~ Nancy Travis