Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marian Wright Edelman

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

Marguerite Duras

We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.

Marian Keyes

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Mike Cameron

That's a headache waiting to happen.

Oprah Winfrey

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

Oprah Winfrey

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

Margaret Atwood

It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!

Margaret Atwood

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Margaret Bourke-White

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.

Mark Twain

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Paul Gauguin

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed...

Patrick Ness

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Patrick Rothfuss

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

Lauren Willig

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Patricia McCormick

Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next...

Patricia Marx

Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

Imogen Cunningham

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

J. K. Rowling

Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.

Natalia Tena

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

Julian Barnes

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.

Ken Kesey

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

Keith Olbermann

Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

Kristen Bell

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

Kim Coates

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

Kim Harrison

I'll wait for you under the bluebells. I'll be there always.

Ken Bruen

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

Randy Savage

The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

Rafael Benitez

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

Sharon Stone

I've done an awful lot of trying to make everybody else okay and happy. I have learned, now it would really be ok to wait for someone who wants to be there for me and partner with me and I'm really looking forward to it...

Sidney Lanier

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.