Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Coupland

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

Donald Trump

I did disagree with Ronald Reagan very strongly on trade. I disagreed with him. We should have been much tougher on trade even then. I've been waiting for years. Nobody does it right.

Douglas William Jerrold

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Dr. Seuss

Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

Dorothy Gilman

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Donnie Yen

I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.

Anna Chlumsky

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!

Albert Camus

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

Albert Camus

N'attendez pas le jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours. Do not wait for the last judgment. It happens every day.

Annie Dillard

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.

Clemence Poesy

I can wait for film projects without having to do things to live.

D. A. Carson

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

Dan Brown

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

Curtis Sittenfeld

If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

Dave Lombardo

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

Dave Eggers

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

David Levithan

A sound waiting to be a word.

David Levithan

You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

David Letterman

At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.

David Letterman

I can hardly wait until Donald Trump announces his celebrity cabinet.

David Letterman

Donald Trump is attacking President Obama's background. And I said, 'Wait a minute, Trump also is from a mixed background. He's half jack and half ass.'

David Eddings

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

David Berg

The resurrection and the judgement will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait!

David Whyte

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Anne Tyler

We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.

Amy Hempel

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.

Anne Rice

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

Anna Faris

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

Alice Walker

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Alice Munro

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

Alice Hoffman

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

Anne Lamott

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

Dani Shapiro

When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.