Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

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.

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.

Greg MacGillivray

There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.

Ja Rule

Because you know, we live in an era now where everything is pushed. We live in a push world where everything gets pushed to you. It's like, I don't have to wait for you to send it to me, I'll go get it off the Internet. So it was difficult to be back in that sort of situation. But it was cool.

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.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

Julia Quinn

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

Neil Young

I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.

Rachel McAdams

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

Noam Chomsky

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Gerald R. Ford

I couldn't wait to start the day.

Jenny Agutter

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Greg Nickels

It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

Jim Butcher

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

Jim Butcher

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

Jim Butcher

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

Jesse Ventura

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

Jean Anouilh

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

Kristin Hannah

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Molly Ivins

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

Molly Ivins

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.

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.