Waiting For Something Quotes

#1. I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse - to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.

Tracy Chevalier

#2. The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

Mary Ellen Mark

#3. Python is much more like a dog, loving you unconditionally, having a few key words that it understands, looking you with a sweet look on its face (), and waiting for you to say something it understands.

Charles Severance

#4. You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

Cesare Pavese

#5. The desert wears ... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting
but waiting for what?

Edward Abbey

#6. If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#7. Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction?

William Boyd

#8. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Sierra McCormick

#9. The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

Jeff Daniels

#10. Joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)

Andre Dubus III

#11. Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.

Desiree Akhavan

#12. It had been, for both of our lives. Frantic action, then months or even years waiting for something to happen.

Ann Leckie

#13. Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

Henry Tizard

#14. Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

Arnold Bennett

#15. She waited the eternal instant that women wait when a horror jumps out at them. It is an instant that men do not use for waiting, an instant that opens a door to life or death. Women look through the opening because something might be alive in there.

Kathleen Winter

#16. He is watching me, waiting for me to say something, to

Paula Hawkins

#17. I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.

Sarah Paulson

#18. I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

J.J. Abrams

#19. From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison

#20. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

N. T. Wright

#21. That's fine until Ethan's sitting in his room waiting for his nightly booty call. When you're a no-show, and he thinks that we're out on the town, he's going to think something happened to us and get everyone all freaked out.

Samantha Chase

#22. Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

Simon Sinek

#23. Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way ...

Paul Arden

#24. I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

Lauren Oliver

#25. He was a gangling creature of potential, a barrel of dynamite waiting for someone or something to light his hues; but no one did.

Neil Gaiman

#26. I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Cory Doctorow

#27. I like that she doesn't hover around me, just waiting for something to break off that she could scoop up and glue back into place.

Angela Wolbert

#28. I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

Tom Stoppard

#29. Our waiting is not nothing. It is something
a very big something
because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#30. It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Jodi Picoult

#31. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. It's just waiting for the right time to show itself.

Emma Hart

#32. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

Mason Cooley

#33. It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Cornell Woolrich

#34. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Anthony Liccione

#35. If the mountain remains standing, it is useless to pray endlessly. God is waiting for you to do something yourself.

Sunday Adelaja

#36. The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#37. Death wasn't something to romanticize. It was something to stave off, to avoid, to fight as long as possible. Even though she had her battles with melancholy, she never seriously considered suicide. Something in her trusted that there would be an upswing and it would be worth waiting for.

Meredith Marple

#38. You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

Kate Del Castillo

#39. Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

Dean Koontz

#40. You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

Rachel Kushner

#41. The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.

Adhir Kalyan

#42. You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#43. 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

#44. There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

Libba Bray

#45. I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

Markus Zusak

#46. We're waiting for something to change into something worth waiting for

Michael Tolcher

#47. Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

Sara Zarr

#48. And it seems to me that everyone is like me - they're all afraid of the slightest movement ... Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#49. It's nice to always have a job and not be floating out in the ether waiting for whatever the next big thing is. So, in that way I hope there's no a shelf-life for great shows. On the other hand, you don't want to be working on something that's reached its peak and become irrelevant.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

#50. I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

Michael Winslow

#51. I'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for.

Lisa Kessler

#52. I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe."
"It's called true love. Most people never find it.

Destin Bays

#53. We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

Andy Rooney

#54. When I am searching for something, it is always waiting for me with open arms.

Debasish Mridha

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

Joyce Meyer

#56. We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

Jenji Kohan

#57. If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

Cher

#58. I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top,

Stephen Curry

#59. The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved

Conor Oberst

#60. Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.

Ashley Bell

#61. We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

Erwin Schrodinger

#62. Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

Rob Brydon

#63. The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Andy Warhol

#64. Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening.

Erin Kelly

#65. The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

Ian Caldwell

#66. The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

Joni Mitchell

#67. As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy - happiness will never come.

Bryant McGill

#68. Well,
sometimes if something is really important to you, it
gets stuck in your body," he said, poking her ribs and
making her laugh. "So even if your mind thinks that it's
gone, it's still in there, kind of hiding inside of you, just
waiting for you to remember. It never goes away.

Priscilla Glenn

#69. If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Wayne Dyer

#70. I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

Lois Lowry

#71. Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner.

Edward De Bono

#72. Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Neil Peart

#73. She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Marguerite Duras

#74. You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

Isaac Marion

#75. I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Louis L'Amour

#76. That happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reaced or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry with you doggedly through everything.

Laini Taylor

#77. By nature, I'm a person who always says that whatever I've done, I could've done better. But I don't dwell on it because I'm waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones.

David Stern

#78. She lives as if she is constantly on the brink of some great fulfillment. As if she were waiting for Prince Charming to take her away "from all this". All what? The solitude of living inside her own soul? The certainty of being herself instead of half of something else?

Erica Jong

#79. I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

Nina Dobrev

#80. We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.

Deborah Hersman

#81. Those who dare to dive into the oceans, often finds treasures; no one ever heard.
Take a leap of faith, every soul is having a treasure inside them, you just have to dive till the very end of their misty soul.
Something really precious is waiting for you there ...

Mohammad Shahzaib Ansari

#82. Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

Ava DuVernay

#83. The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can't wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Chris Gardner

#84. It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating. Most nights I lay awake waiting for some unexpected disaster ... I think I somehow felt that as long as I was conscious, nothing bad could happen ...

Azar Nafisi

#85. If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

Robert Penn Warren

#86. I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.

Sarah Paulson

#87. I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carrie Fisher

#88. Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing ...

Neil Gaiman

#89. I don't know what's waiting for us when we die
something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Charles De Lint

#90. There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

Lily Koppel

#91. There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

Lewis Grizzard

#92. Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Lauren Willig

#93. I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I'm tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I'm going to go and produce something.

Kirk Cameron

#94. In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.

Robert Goolrick

#95. I remember when I first wanted to act my parents were supportive, but it was that they were like please, if you can find something else in the world, don't do this. So it wasn't even they're like 'Oh we've been waiting for you to arrive, welcome to the family business' kind of thing.

Troian Bellisario

#96. I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

Bethany Hamilton

#97. With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

Pierce Brosnan

#98. I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Khaled Hosseini

#99. I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve me, God or a parent or my husband or any of those things or people or ideas or words that by their definition promised love.

Miriam Toews

#100. Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

Rudyard Kipling