Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

Matt Bomer

Billy [Ray] is a preternatural enthusiast. He would say things to me like, "Now, let me tell you about Episode 3." I'm a big superstitious, having done television for quite some time, and I would say, "Billy, I can't wait to hear about it, but let's just stay here for right now, see what happens, and enjoy this moment.

Matt Damon

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

Mary Martin

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

Mark Twain

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

Mark Twain

Don't wait the time is never just right.

Marian Keyes

(The Other side of the Story)"The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass".

Nicholas Sparks

I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.

Pat Williams

Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form. He was not frozen when his life ended. He's not in some frozen vault right now waiting to make a big comeback.

Marya Hornbacher

Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.

Marya Hornbacher

Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

Mark Helprin

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

Oswald Chambers

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

Oswald Chambers

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

Michael Kinsley

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Markus Zusak

A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

Markus Zusak

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

Markus Zusak

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them

Mario Andretti

The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.

Marilyn Manson

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

Christina Perri

I have died everyday, waiting for you.

Christina Aguilera

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

Chris Messina

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

Chris Gardner

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Chris Hadfield

One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.

Francesca Lia Block

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

Fran Tarkenton

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

George Santayana

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

Morgan Saylor

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

Milarepa

I was in England waiting for a flight to India, when I received a message from Shunyo (already in Bombay at this point) that Osho had answered one of my questions during the previous night's discourse. On hearing this, I experienced a love that knows no boundaries, no time.