Waiting Quotes - Page 69

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

Just always be waiting for me.

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.

When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

On calm days, you always think you've conquered them. You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of them for good, now and forever. But that seldom happens. Most of the time, the demons are still there, lurking somewhere in the shadows. Tirelessly waiting for the moment when our guard drops. And when love goes away.

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.