Waiting quotes

“If we wait too long we shrivel up like some imported apricot sitting on the shelf in Waitrose.”
Lesley Manville - Fiona

“I don't want my resturant to be a place where people sit and eat. I want people to sit at that table and be sick with longing.”
Bradley Cooper - Adam Jones

“I told you, a watched pot never boils.”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“It's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for.”
Tony Curtis - Junior

“How much of human life is lost in waiting?”
Sir John Hurt - Professor Oxley

“- Distinguished Gentleman: If we don't get that piece then we'll have to wait five thousand years for another alignment.
- Manfred Powell: I don't know about you but I'm not planning to give that much time to this enterprise.”
Richard Johnson - Distinguished Gentleman
Iain Glen - Manfred Powell

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
Liz Taylor

Been to a lot of funerals. Folded the flag and given it to a lot of wives, and fathers, and kids. I told them how sorry I was. But that's not what I was really feeling. In the back of my mind, I was always saying, "better them than me". But I don't believe that now. Because now I realize there are some things worse than death, and one of them is... (continue)(continue reading)
Ving Rhames - Kenneth

“God sees the truth... but waits.”
Dale Midkiff - Louis Creed

“I saw the moon when we where out there on the ocean. Shining down on everything. I've been miserable for so long. Years of my life wasted. For you. Been a long time comin' here to met you. A long time, on a crooked road.”

Tom Hanks - Joe

“When people get hooked on the new age life they end up sitting at home burning candles for Mister Right, when Mister Good-Enough-For-Right-Now is waiting at the corner bar!”
Molly Shannon - Eve

“As maybe the world's leading authority on waiting too long, don't. You both deserve a win.”

Chris Evans - Steve Rogers

“Wait all ya want, 'cause there's no end.”
Jack Plotnick - Accountant

- Rushon: Have you ever had a man wait seven weeks to "hit that"?
- Nikki: What are you asking her for? She never made a man wait thirty minutes.
- Bunz: Do I smell a whore?
Tommy Davidson - Rushon
Tamala Jones - Nikki
Jamie Foxx - Bunz

“Everything ends eventually. So why sit around and wait for it to happen.”
Kristin Chenoweth - Aunt Susan

“You don't keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something. When you want to say fuck you.”
Al Pacino - Jimmy Hoffa

“You're really lucky, you know that? You didn't have to wait your whole life to do something special.”

Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“He's waited for this night... he's waited for me... I've waited for him...”

Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode

“I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“The Ring had a will of its own, and a way of slipping from one hand to be found by another, so that it might at last get back to its master. And there, the ring lay at the bottom of the great river Anduin for thousands of years.”
William Squire - Gandalf

“She's getting fat sitting around waiting for you to fall in love with her again.”

Lesley Manville - Cyril

“You made me wait 30 years to prove to the world I could kick your ass! And that's what I'm going to do, kick your ass!”

Robert De Niro - Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen

“My old man always told me good things come to those who wait.”
Jasper Pääkkönen - Felix Kendrickson

“- Theseus: The most beautiful girl in the world is here in Sparta.
- Pirithous: She's just a child!
- Theseus: I'll ripen her like grapes; I'll age her like wine. When she ages just enough, I'll taste her.”
Stellan Skarsgård - Theseus
Jim Carter - Pirithous

“- Frank Bannister: Catch you later, Hiles.
- Sgt. Hiles: My tour of duty runs another 85 years! There's a piece of dirt up here with your name on it, Bannister! I'm waiting for you, you little maggot!”
Michael J. Fox - Frank Bannister
R. Lee Ermey - Sgt. Hiles