Waiting Quotes

• We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Waiting

• When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

  

  Corey Johnson
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Daughter

• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Behinds
  • Stuck

• We play for free. We get paid for waiting.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Free
  • Play
  • Waiting

• I'm really lucky, I have my performing career so I can continue to do personal appearances. Most actors have to do a film. But I thought I would wait until I found something I really liked.A lot of my friends feel that I'm wrong to wait. They say I should have done My Bodyguard, but I don't think so. I think I've been right.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Friends

• There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Great
  • Achievement
  • Motivational

• When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Waiting

• One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Ideas
  • Common
  • Pages

• A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Two

• You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Time
  • Money
  • Creativity

• The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Lifetime

• Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

  

  Jet Li
  • Waiting
  • Sun

• I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Believe
  • Waiting
  • Inspiration

• Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Long
  • inspirational
  • Missing

• We wait always for something that does not come.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Waiting
  • Doe

• Think of God not as a word, or a stranger, or as someone on high, waiting to judge and punish you. Think of Him as you would want to be thought of if you were God.

  

  Daya Mata
  • Thinking
  • Judging
  • Stranger

• I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.

  

  Steve Waugh
  • Sports
  • Waiting
  • Airports

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

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • People
  • Waiting

• I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll never forget: 'ALWAYS...' no, wait-- 'NEVER...' no, wait, it was 'ALWAYS carry a litter bag in your car. It doesn't take up much room, and if it gets full, you can toss it out the window.'

  

  Steve Martin
  • Car
  • Forget
  • Window

• The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Virtue
  • Humility
  • Grace

• A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Woman
  • Waiting
  • Company

• I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Trying
  • Waiting
  • Missing

• The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

  

  Jonathan Schell
  • World
  • Hand
  • Design

• If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Done
  • Tired
  • Wonderful

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