Waiting Quotes
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Kobe was waiting for his game to get hot and it never happened, and we tried to force the ball into him and it cost us.
Phil Jackson
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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
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
Anne Lamott
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If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.
Oprah Winfrey
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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
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Prostitute yourself. As far as I'm concerned, that's even braver than waiting for the public to catch on.
Gene Klein Kiss
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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
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
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I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.
Dove Cameron
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I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.
Cynthia Nixon
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Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.
Carol Vorderman
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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
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Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.
P. C. Cast
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We'll grow old waiting.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.
Matt Cartwright
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She says 'Do I know you?' I say 'Well, no, not biblically,But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.'She says, 'Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.'
Ani DiFranco
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I grew up feeling 'less than.' I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I'd wait for my grandmother's voice to call, 'Jewell, Jewell.' I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I'd be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
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These men and women remind us that heroism is found not only on the fields of battle. They remind us that heroism does not require special training or physical strength. Heroism is here, all around us, in the hearts of so many of our fellow citizens, just waiting to be summoned - as it was on Saturday morning.
Barack Obama
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Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.
N.D. Wilson
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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