Biding Quotes

#1. In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. Like old married people who no longer have anything in common, to do or to talk about, save the same general weight of air to displace and breathe and general oblivious biding earth to bear their weight ...

William Faulkner

#3. I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there a while, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry in the morning.

Sara Gruen

#4. I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

Darren Star

#5. The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.

Margaret Mitchell

#7. Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

E.L. Konigsburg

#8. You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Jay McInerney

#9. Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

Carrie Fisher

#10. Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

Johanna Lindsey

#11. Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.

Allie Brosh

#12. I don't think I've ever heard you laugh. Ever. You face life like it's a warrior come to chop your head off, and you're just biding your time fretting until it does. Haven't you ever heard of the power of laughter?

Noelle Crawford

#13. At home there tarries like a lurking snake,
Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled,
A wily watcher, passionate to slake,
In blood, resentment for a murdered child.

Aeschylus

#14. In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#15. People are going to think and take things how they're going to take it, and I have no control over that, so it's kind of like biding time until you get your feedback. So, it's like, once the public can consume what you're putting out there, then you know. Then you know hit, miss, in between.

Phil Anselmo

#16. Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

Cat Clarke

#17. They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.

Douglas Adams

#18. When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

Charles William Eliot

#19. She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come back.

Gayle Forman

#20. You think it's impossible to be a passive fighter? Well, sometimes fighting just means existing. Existing, not going away, and quietly biding your time.

Sophie Hardach

#21. Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Lew Wallace

#22. And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

Margaret Mitchell

#23. I'm biding my time until my real life kicks in."
"How will you know when that happens?"
"It will be when I no longer have a list of things I've never done.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#24. I am merely biding my time. (Stryder)
For what? (Rowena)
For the moment when I am out of this cell and am able to wreak havoc on the one who put me here. I'm going to pull out his innards through his nostrils and dance around his entrails. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

#25. The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.

A.J. Nuest

#26. Creatives are feared and ridiculed ... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

Janice Tanton

#27. You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.

D.H. Lawrence

#28. Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Aretha Franklin

#29. Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

James Franco

#30. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.

Rita Leganski

#31. She is light while I am darkness, she is raw beauty and so blessedly pure while I am nothing more than a poison to humanity.She deserves her life far more than I deserve mine.

M.S. Willis

#32. The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

Brooke Burke

#33. I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.

Faraaz Kazi

#34. Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

Laura Prepon

#35. with her, almost as though she were an equal. But he was

June Hall McCash

#36. I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

Ansel Elgort

#37. She was so going to get it later. Macy, queen of my universe, I beseechingly request you place your sweetest lips upon my manhood and make it your lollipop.

Cherrie Lynn