Waiting Quotes - Page 19

• Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Past, Years, People

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• My heart's in stage. Making Quadrophenia was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But "hurry up and wait" is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

  Phil Daniels

  Heart, Riding, Want

  "Portrait of the artist: Phil Daniels, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2011.

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

  Andy Grove

  Decision, Investment, Personal Decisions

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• K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

  Ed Viesturs

  Rocks, Ice, Snow

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2009). “K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain”, p.310, Broadway Books

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• Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance. It's gotten so bad that the offices are overwhelmed and can't function. I got an idea. Why don't you hire more people? They're right there in line. Speed this whole thing up!

  Jay Leno

  Country, Ideas, Office

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• Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Thinking, Today

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• I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

  President Visits with Residents of Poplarville, Mississippi, Pearl River Community College, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 5, 2005.

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• Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

  Henry Ford

  Cost, Buying, Management

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.91, 谷月社

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• Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

  James May

  People, Car, Hip Hop

  "Top Gear/ Episode #6.1". Comedy, Talk-Show, May 22, 2005.

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• Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.

  Phil Anselmo

  Wise, Nice, Boys

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• If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Given, Endless, Endure

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• Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.

  Janette Oke

  Moving, Moving Forward, Teach

  Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers

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• God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

  Paula White

  Enemy, Turns, Ready

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• You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

  Robert Stack

  Phones, Rings

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• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Doors

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

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• Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

  Elliott Abrams

  Mean, Winter, Years

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• We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Years, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting

  Patricia Marx

  Long, Wells

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• The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.

  Keiko Nobumoto

  Lying, Flower, Sadness

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• Planning is like "pointing yourself" in the direction of a target...no more than that. Let your power then redefine the target, and re-point you in the correct direction. Think of it like this: An arrow is never going to hit the target unless it's in flight. If you sit around and wait for God to shoot the arrow, nothing is going to happen.

  Lee Carroll

  Thinking, Arrows, Target

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

  Jay Watson

  Song, Writing, Phrases

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Perfect, Guy

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wunc.org. January 1, 2016.

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• I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

  Clive James

  Thinking, Media, Waiting Around

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

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• Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."

  Hal Holbrook

  Golf, Years, Play

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

  Grimes

  Important, Shiver, Happens

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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