Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenna Morasca

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Jeanne Calment

I wait for death and journalists.

GG Allin

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

Gerald R. Ford

I couldn't wait to start the day.

Hunter S. Thompson

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

Hudson Taylor

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

Howard Thurman

Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind.

Ian Mcewan

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

Ian Fleming

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

I don't want to be waiting all day.

Eoin Colfer

Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

Elvis Costello

You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

Jason Russell

The better world we want is coming, it's just waiting for us to stop at nothing.

Hillary Clinton

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

Hillary Clinton

I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.

Hillary Clinton

If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their care, according to statistics, overall is as good or better on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like waiting times, you know.

Evan Esar

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

Evan Esar

All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

Jack Kerouac

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

J. B. Smoove

You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you.

By 9 a.m. it was warm enough to become sleepy. Now I'm waiting for it to become fall.

Graeme Murphy

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

Glenn Greenwald

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Gertrude B. Elion

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

I'm waiting for something to come down in writing.

I'm waiting for it to get easier. I don't think it ever will.

I just got off work, and like everyone else, I'm just waiting to get back inside.

Grandma Moses

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

Gordon Parks

I want to go home. They're waiting for me there.

They'll just hover over you, waiting for you to get out.

It was just waiting to happen. But not to that extent.

Kevin Kelly

They will not all go to fruition, but we're waiting to see what develops.

It's like we're all waiting for something to start.