Waiting Quotes

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.
Joe Manchin

Agonizing, Firsthand

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
Anne Tyler

Work, Mother, Writing

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
Sally Field

Whole, Second, Half

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
Don Bluth

Again, Confident, Pendulum

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
Sharon Stone

The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like this should exist, and people were impatiently waiting for them to show up.
Rob Sheffield

Wanted, Show, Band

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, End, Writer

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
Naveen Jain

Success, Failure, Successful

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

Two, Sun, Sometimes

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
Heston Blumenthal

Worked, Falling, Accountant

People are always waiting to be discovered.
Jonathan Carroll

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

God, American, Prove

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.
Erin Morgenstern

Down, Keep, Stay

It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.
Kato Kaelin

Give, Guilty, Meet

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.
David Schwimmer

Friends, Before, Started

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
Graham Norton

Success, Good, Enough

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

Far, Less, Stand

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale

Love, Women, Spring

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
Luther Allison

Sunshine, Show, Door

With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.
Mike Epps

Men, Sunday, Two

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
Britt Ekland

Time, Happy, Single

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
John C. McGinley

Terror, Calms, Rooms

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.
Diane Keaton

Life, Happen, Start

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

Sunday, Around, She

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
George Byron

Travel, Lord, Quiet

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Leadership, Time, Moving

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
Angie Harmon

Keep, Head, Cartoons

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
Piers Anthony

Good, Hope, Light

For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
Jo Nesbo

Great, Best, Happy

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
Camryn Manheim

Another, Keep, Few

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