Waiting Quotes

We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot of talk about us doing 'Sucker Punch' in 3-D, but I'm still waiting to see.
Zack Snyder

Talk, Punch, Sucker

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.
Eric Burdon

Family, Child, Until

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
Lance Burton

Person, Made, Alive

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
Bill Frist

Forward, Thinking, Until

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall

Lost, Soul, Others

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?
Guy Finley

Nature, Self, Same

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
Susan George

Time, Job, Long

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
Nancy Kerrigan

Love, Mother, After

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.
Gwen Moore

Woman, After, Hot

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Long, Around, Making

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
Iggy Pop

Money, Give, Here

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Time, Men, Read

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
Sidney Altman

Work, Student, Physics

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
GG Allin

Change, Money, Him

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.
Wes Anderson

Work, Time, Great

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.
Wally Schirra

Happen, Said, Maybe

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
John Mahoney

Greatest, Saying, Down

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.
Lisa Guerrero

Weather, Plan, Wings

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Malcolm De Chazal

God, Keep, While

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.
Will Ferrell

Funny, End, Through

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

Life, Great, Home

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.
Jeremy London

Music, Acting, Role

That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!
Roman Coppola

Love, Work, Design

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.
Corrine Brown

Work, Keep, Needs

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
Kate Walsh

Work, Coffee, Between

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
Tom Glazer

Often, Write, Song

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
Dan Castellaneta

Hard, Find, Play

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
Bernardo Bertolucci

Work, Time, Made

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski

Life, Death, Moment

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

Long, Keep, Issue

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