Waiting Around For You Quotes

#1. The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

Tim Burton

#2. I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

Johnny Carson

#3. In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

Olga Kurylenko

#4. My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this.

Meghan Trainor

#5. But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future,

Gina McCarthy

#6. There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

James Franco

#7. It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Roger Zelazny

#8. That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble - leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

Charles Bukowski

#9. You stupid cow!" He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. "You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone's a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren't enough to convince you of that?

Devon Trevarrow Flaherty

#10. You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#11. A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

Byron Katie

#12. I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it.

Ayana Mathis

#13. It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

Al Pacino

#14. You never know when things are going to turn around. Things could turn around tomorrow. That's what I keep waiting for. If you left now, you'd never know.

Amy Kinzer

#15. Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?'
it must be here. they can't have eaten that ... i dunno, Nik, what do they do?'
POO.

Angie Sage

#16. The world is awakening and it's not waiting for anyone. You either awaken with it or be left consumed by old concepts and ideas. Do you thrust yourself into the unknown or stay covered in dust that has been hanging around for ages?

Bephyer Parey

#17. If opportunity doesn't knock build a door and open it, stop waiting around for someone to give it to you.

Tilicia Haridat

#18. Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Chuck Close

#19. You are not going to be lost when you get to hell. If you are without Christ, you are lost right now. Your trial is already over. You've already been sentenced. You're just waiting for execution morning to roll around.

Lester Roloff

#20. Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.

A.J. Darkholme

#21. You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.

Steven Furtick

#22. To fulfill our lives and be happy, we have to enjoy the little things, see the beauty around us instead of waiting for big things to enjoy, or you will just pass life by waiting.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I wish I could somehow recover all those years I wasted waiting around for him to deal with his issues." Save yourself that sadness if you can, by insisting on nothing less than complete respect.

Lundy Bancroft

#24. What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Robert Frost

#25. I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.

Liane Balaban

#26. Seth: I need you to be mine. I can't handle this chasing you around nonsense anymore. These moments we have, where it feels like I almost have you but I'm always wondering what you're thinking and waiting for you to run from me? I can't take it. It's for this to be a real relationship.

Kelly Oram

#27. You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Faith Ringgold

#28. if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's

Rod Dreher

#29. People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

John Darnielle

#30. You see, people don't really listen anymore, no... they just sit around waiting for everyone else to shut up, waiting until it's finally their turn to talk. Back and forth, an endless cycle that gets us nowhere, because nobody really gives a shit about what's being said.

J.M. Darhower

#31. I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

Laura Benanti

#32. It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Gerhard Richter

#33. The most embarassing is when friends ask you to meet up with them and you have to tell them "Sorry I can't go to that place" because you're fully aware photographers will be waiting for you there. I feel like such a weasle when things like that happen, like the world has to revolve around me.

Robert Pattinson

#34. Always waiting, waiting to go up to the front line, waiting in the trenches with the whizzbags and shells bursting all around you, waiting for the whistle to send you out over the top and across No-Man's-Land, waiting for the bullet that had name on it.

Michael Morpurgo

#35. Can't you understand that I'd much rather help catch him that sit around waiting for him to pounce?

Robert Galbraith

#36. I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

#37. Well, have you even tried again? You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.

Markus Zusak

#38. Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

Osho

#39. I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

J. Lynn

#40. I don't know what's waiting for me around the corner and I don't know what else I'm going to be doing in the future - but you've got to enjoy things while you're doing them. There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

Miley Cyrus

#41. Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head.

Robert LaSardo

#42. It's about you. I always thought that you would need some time, you know, to grow up, but I think I just realized that it's never going to happen, not while I'm sitting around waiting for it.

Emma Straub

#43. I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but you're the one who's been hot and cold with me. I wasn't planning on chasing around after you, waiting for you to decide I'm worthy. I don't work that way.

Nyrae Dawn

#44. Very Nice to meet you all"
They all floated in silence as if waiting on something when it dawned on me that they were waiting for me to get in. I pulled off my shirt and tossed it with my towel. When I turned around their mouths were agape.
"What?"
"N-nothing" Finley said, her eyes wide.

Fisher Amelie

#45. Sitting around waiting for inspiration is for amateurs. If you're a professional, you show up every day at work.

Mara Altman

#46. You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

Jeff Foxworthy

#47. Love yourself, love life, and remember love may be waiting just around the corner for you.

Cindy Dees

#48. Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

Will Shetterly

#49. Why are you waiting for me?" I asked.
"Because you're worth it."
"You don't know that."
"Yes, I do."
"How?"
"I've been around. I know when something's good."
My throat tightened a little. "What if you're wrong?"
"I'm not wrong.

Nina Lane

#50. There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.

John Hurt

#51. Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Tony Randall

#52. You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it.

Herman Lay

#53. Personally, I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell you you're good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you're doing. Be relentless and never give up.

Troy Little

#54. In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.

Seth Shostak

#55. Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.

Darren Shan

#56. Don't wait around waiting for God to do something that He's already given you the power to do.

Joyce Meyer

#57. Keep your head up, your chin high, and your eyes open for the little miracles occuring around you ... because trust me they are there, they are just waiting to be uncovered like a diamond on the ruff

Terrin White

#58. Officer, this guy is not waiting around for me ... so you better shoot me or help me but decide now!

Jack Bauer

#59. You need to have a good think about what you want. Remember that you can't sit around waiting for happiness to find you. You find it.

Karli Perrin

#60. This is the thing no one prepares you for where disaster are concerned. There is no ominous black cloud, no spooky chill, no neon sign that flashes: Stop! Please! Go back to bed! There's something really really dreadful waiting to happen around the corner! I beg of you, do not continue!

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#61. If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

Nikki Giovanni

#62. If you wait around for everything to be perfect, you'll be waiting around forever. Nothing is ever perfect.

Ann Vaughn

#63. Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

Zoe Kazan

#64. All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any women!

Hiromu Arakawa

#65. British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting for you to notice she was sulking.

Ruth Downie

#66. You can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can get started on some vengeance. It's like a dang vocation with them

Alden Bell

#67. Shh," he said. "Look."
"Where?"
"Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you."
"Me?"
"Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.

Katherine Paterson

#68. You'll end up living a lonely life if you're waiting around for perfect.

Samantha Young

#69. He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.

Colleen Coble

#70. I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#71. Inspiration is already here, waiting for you to turn around and look at it.

Matthew Krause

#72. I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never sat around, waiting for someone to tell me to take charge. I just do it.

R.K. Lilley

#73. You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

Melanie Griffith

#74. Once when I visited her, she scuffed around the house in pink pile-lined slippers you'd wear only while waiting for the police to discover you many days dead.

Melissa Bank

#75. Some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting around for a chance to change it.

Sarah Dessen

#76. The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

Kyle MacLachlan

#77. Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#78. You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

Nora Roberts

#79. Whenever you turn around, I'll be watching and waiting for you.

Pamela Morsi

#80. Sometimes you run out of ideas, just like if you are a writer or whatever. Then you just have to wait around for something to inspire you or look for something to inspire you.

Martina Mcbride

#81. Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

George Mason

#82. Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

Daniel Abraham

#83. He whispered, "That miracle you were praying for - he's patiently waiting his turn to hold you."
Laura lifted her head from John's chest, focusing on the faces around her. At last, her eyes fell upon him. Tony smiled softly.

Adriana Parrinello

#84. Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting patiently for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place- I've always done that.

Bette Midler

#85. need a driver for the next few days, maybe more. You want to do it, the job's yours. I'm paying ten bucks an hour plus any meals. You'd have to bring a book or something because there will be a lot of sitting around waiting for me.

Michael Connelly

#86. Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and you'll gift yourself abundantly.

Michelle Geaney

#87. Passively sitting around and waiting for things to happen only leaves things up to chance, which you have no control over.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#88. If Ruby had learned anything in Holy Wood, it was that there was no use in waiting around for Mr. Right to hit you with a brick. You had to make your own bricks.

Terry Pratchett

#89. Seems like I've been waiting for you to come around my whole life, Lee. But a man can't wait forever and stay a man.

Rae Carson

#90. Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

Dylan McDermott

#91. File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.

Antony Johnston

#92. We've been around for a long time, Mr. Dowell. Longer than you or any of your stupid little friends could ever conceive. Sleeping in the shadows and waiting for the right moment. A disease you might call us. A plague. Evil. From beneath the ground, it rises as it has done many times in the past.

Jeyn Roberts

#93. I've been waiting for you for a very long time." I raised her off my shoulders, lowered her to me, and guided her legs around my waist. "Why did you take so long to come to me?"
"If I knew you were here, I would've come so much sooner.

Kenya Wright

#94. You never know what is waiting for you around the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

P.G. Wodehouse

#95. I'm not saying that's all I have floating around inside my brain, as a writer, there are so many possibilities waiting for a chance to be noticed. You can never say it's over.

SD Neeve

#96. A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.

Rich Mullins