Wait Quotes

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.