Quotes About Patience

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: "That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going.

Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?" "I'll try,"I told him seriously. "You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

I have to step out for a second. Don't do anything funny while I'm gone.

Hurry up and learn patience.

The cure for moving too fast is just to slow down.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while!" ? Bill Murray character in Cadyshack

She has to agree to have me. It could take some time, but I'm confident I can trick her into it.

Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?"Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.