Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

Devdutt Pattanaik

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

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.

Gary Shteyngart

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

Jenna Morasca

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Kelley Armstrong

Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.

John C. McGinley

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Zach Johnson

I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.

Jan Brogan

We came out on one and two doubles and didn't play within our game. We calmed down and played within our game in singles. We have pushed Stanford more than any other team and we will just get more confident in the next month and a half.

Alan Barton

We came out in the third and the three kind of got us going. I was calm at halftime and just told the girls that they weren't playing.

Tony Marshburn

Tyler hit a big shot. He was the second option, but that wasn't the shot (designed). I'm just glad it ended up in his hands. He was calm enough to put up a good shot.

S. Hughes

We have a lack of taking care of the basketball. We need to have a guard step up and calm things down. We need to have someone emerge and take the responsibility away from our scorers.

Sue Fox

Wait 24 hours to calm down. Then, read your message over again. If you still feel the same way, send it.

Thomas Fuller

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

Ed Hinkel

We just want to stay calm like he does. We all kind of model after him.