Waiting Quotes

• It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • People
  • Life
  • Running

• It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It’s like some form of skin’s developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Hard
  • Jump
  • Be Alone

• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Waiting
  • Rose

• One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Waiting
  • Competition
  • Tennis

• The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Men
  • True
  • Sleep

• I can't wait to be a mom, but I can wait.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Mom
  • Waiting
  • I Can

• Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Truth
  • Waiting

• Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Cities
  • Toronto

• Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.

  

  David Weinberger
  • Age
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley, impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will, temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent possession of the soil.

  

  John W. Dawson
  • Spirit
  • Possession
  • Temporary

• I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Life
  • She
  • Book

• These next days are crucial to see who is participating in the auctions. Everyone is waiting.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Waiting
  • Auctions

• They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, shall be healed, delivered and set free. Be set free, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Free
  • Jesus
  • Names

• I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Waiting

• When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

  

  Elizabeth Pena
  • Failure
  • Waiting

• This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Alone
  • Waiting
  • Nerd

• What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • People
  • Time
  • Die

• I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Conversation

• In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Moments
  • Winning
  • Chance

• When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!'

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Bad
  • Hair
  • Teacher

• I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Waiting

• Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Bad
  • Taken
  • Picture

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