Waiting Quotes

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

The Indian race are waiting and praying.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

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.'

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

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.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

What would you say? And why are you waiting?

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.

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

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.