Waiting Quotes - Page 109

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.

People who wait for the right moment end up waiting forever.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress’ negotiations often come slow or not at all.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

When people are described as difficult and have a reputation as difficult it's 99% of the time because they've been disappointed over and over again by people who don't really know what to do for them, and I know I'm going to make them happy and I can't wait to work with them.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first

I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.