Waiting Quotes - page 61

The needs that are met by tyrants are as real as those to which freedom answers; sometimes they are more urgent. Tyrants promise security - and release from the tedium of everyday existence. To be sure, this is only a confused fantasy. The drab truth of tyranny is a life spent in waiting. But the perennial romance of tyranny comes from its promising its subjects a life more interesting than any they can contrive for themselves. (John N. Gray)
I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work. View quote
Bernardo Bertolucci
I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance. View quote
Sarah Dessen
I've been waiting to be arrested all day. I'm disappointed!" [Mair replies] "We're all with you on that one. View quote
Eddie Mair
If through the years we're not to do Much finer deeds than we have done; If we must merely wander through Time's garden, idling in the sun; If there is nothing big ahead, Why do we fear to join the dead?Unless to-morrow means that we Shall do some needed service here; That tasks are waiting you and me That will be lost, save we appear; Then why this dreadful thought of sorrow That we may never see to-morrow? View quote
Edgar Guest
There are more lives yet, there are more worlds waiting, For the way climbs up to the eldest sun, Where the white ones go to their mystic mating, And the Holy Will is done. View quote
Edwin Markham
I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green. View quote
Terry McMillan
I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it. View quote
Terry McMillan
Still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild. View quote
David Bowie
[While filming 'Ashes to Ashes'] So we're on the beach shooting this scene with a giant bulldozer. The camera was on a very long lens. [The camera is along way away, but the artist fills the frame] In this video I'm dressed from head to toe in a clown suit. Why not. I hear playback and the music starts. So off I go, I start singing and walking, but as soon as I do this old geezer with an old dog walk right between me and the camera... Well, knowing this is gonna take a while I walked past the old guy and sat next to camera in my full costume waiting for him to pass. As he is walking by camera the director said, excuse me Mr do you know who this is? The old guy looks at me from bottom to top and looks back to the director and said... "Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit." View quote
David Bowie
These in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet;- Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day;- Under the laurel the Blue, Under the willow, the Gray. (Francis Miles Finch)
You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't. View quote
Conor Oberst
I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines. View quote
Gail Tsukiyama
An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived. View quote
Louis Sachar
Waiting in the wings, wishing to chop us to pieces, is Yankee steel butcher MacGregor. This 70-year-old multi-millionaire import, who massacred half the steel workforce in less than three years, is almost certainly brought in to wield the axe on pits. It's now or never for Britain's mineworkers. This is the final chance – while we still have the strength – to save our industry. View quote
Arthur Scargill
Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop. View quote
Guy Finley
Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that-because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you. View quote
Jerry Spinelli
I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set. View quote
Til Schweiger
Willingham, waiting in the batters box, Wagner ready, the 1–0 pitch, swing and fly ball to left, Floyd under it, he's there, put it in the books, The New York Mets have won the 2006 National League Eastern Division Championship and the party is under way. View quote
Howie Rose
I know from people I work with, that people say "I want to have Heidi's career," and my friends are like, "but she also works very hard." It's the truth! It's not as if I sit back and watch things fly onto my plate. I went for a lot of the things. (Success) doesn't happen by waiting for things to happen because there are other people who are hungry. The early bird catches a worm. View quote
Heidi Klum
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. (Eckhart Tolle)
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. View quote
Isabel Wilkerson
Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious. View quote
Tupac Shakur
God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Waiting for Cronulla to win a premiership is like leaving the porch lamp on for Harold Holt. View quote
Jack Gibson