Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothea Lange

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Coolio

I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.

E. B. White

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

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.

Andy Grove

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

Amy Poehler

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

Ann Brashares

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Douglas Adams

On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

Colleen Haskell

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Dan Brown

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

David Lloyd George

One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

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.

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.

Anna Neagle

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Chuck Yeager

Never wait for trouble.

Aml Ameen

In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it's important to create the work.

Andy Warhol

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

Angel Haze

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

Anatole Broyard

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

William Shakespeare

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

William Shakespeare

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

Thornton Wilder

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

Thomas Sydenham

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.