Quotes About Time

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

For lots of reasons, including working crazy hours and having a job that required significant travel, I did not start trying to have a baby until I was in my late 30s. My experience is hardly unique. I am one of countless women who almost waited too long without realizing it.

All my life, I've been focusing on tennis, training, getting results. Jenni and I wanted to have kids pretty early, but we waited. We always thought it was better in the future. Now I don't understand why we ever waited.

I waited for seven years for something like 'The Empire.'

I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're waiting and waiting and waiting, once you're actually on set engaging in the scene with another actor, time is of the essence.

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.