Waiting quotes

“The Big Fear, the real fear, is that hard times might squeeze you so bad, you'll be driving every day of the week. It's the fear that the music you're writing, or your brilliant first novel that's like a draft away from being a best-seller, or your plans for law school, have to wait.”
Bill Maher - Baba

“- Edmund Bertram: Is there anything to be done?
- Dr. Winthrop: Wait.
- Edmund Bertram: Wait?
- Dr. Winthrop: Yes. Time can do almost anything.”
Jonny Lee Miller - Edmund Bertram
Gordon Reid - Dr. Winthrop

“- Homer Wells: Just tell me. I'll do whatever you wanna do.
- Candy Kendall: Nothing.
- Homer Wells: Isn't that like waiting and seeing?
- Candy Kendall: No. Nothing's nothing.”

Tobey Maguire - Homer Wells
Charlize Theron - Candy Kendall

“- Allie: Why didn't you write me? Why? It wasn't over for me, I waited for you for seven years. But now it's too late.
- Noah: I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year.
- Allie: You wrote me?
- Noah: Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over”
Rachel McAdams - Allie
Ryan Gosling - Noah

“The sweetest sounds I'll ever hear are still inside my head. The kindest words I'll ever know are waiting to be said. The most entrancing sight of all is yet for me to see and the dearest love in all the world is waiting somewhere for me.”
Brandy Norwood - Cinderella

“The one who loves, waits.”
Tom Berenger - Harry Dobbs

“- Harrison: You haven't been outside this house in days.
- Jessica: I thought this is where you wanted me - looking decorative, waiting for the suitors to call.”
Brian Dennehy - Harrison
Sigrid Thornton - Jessica

“- Young D'Artagnan: And We're waiting for Planchet?
- D'Artagnan's Father: I would... but my hunger won't.”

Max Dolbey - Young D'Artagnan
Luc Gentil - D'Artagnan's Father

“- Joe Gideon: To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.
- Angelique: That's very theatrical, Joe.
- Joe Gideon: Yeah, I know.
- Angelique: Did you make that up?
- Joe Gideon: I wish I had.”
Roy Scheider - Joe Gideon
Jessica Lange - Angelique

“You're 40-years-old, you're four times as old as this girl, and you can't marry her, so you wait five years. By that time the little girl's 15 and you're 45. You're only three times as old as that little girl. So you wait 15 years and when the girl is 30, you're at 60. You're only twice as old as that little girl.”

Bud Abbott - Slicker Smith

“- Gregor: It would be nice to do something.
- Sam: We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting.”
Stellan Skarsgård - Gregor
Robert De Niro - Sam

“Let me ask you something. If you know so much about men and women, how come there was no one waiting for you at the airport?”
Meg Ryan - Kate

“- Larry Burrows: Have you ever had any regrets, Clip? You know, about how your life is turned out, about the choices you made.
- Clip Metzler: Oh... no. I figured I didn't make out many choices. You know what my policy is? You do nothing, you see what happens. And you know what, things always are turning up fine.”
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows
Jon Lovitz - Clip Metzler

“- David Jacobs: We started the strike, but we can't do it alone. So, we're talking to Newsies all around the city.
- Spot Conlon: Yeah, so they told me. But what'd they tell you?
- David Jacobs: They're waiting to see what Spot Conlon is doing, you're the key. That Spot Conlon is the most respected and famous Newsie in all of New York, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Gabriel Damon - Spot Conlon

“- Lee Morgan: I'll wait for you.
- Johnny Blake: You'll have to wait too long.”
Joan Blondell - Lee Morgan
Edward G. Robinson - Johnny Blake

“- American Immigration Official: The Romanian quota is very small, very crowded.
- Georges Iscovescu: That means I have to wait?
- American Immigration Official: Between five and eight years, Mr. Iscovescu.”
Harry Shannon - American Immigration Official
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu

“- Polly Pry: How are you doing?
- Alferd Packer: How am I doing? Have you ever been sitting around waiting to die?”

Toddy Walters - Polly Pry
Trey Parker - Alferd Packer

“- Lisa Provolone: I want Oscar.
- Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone: I want him more than you do. But he's on the lam and Anthony's taking the rap for him.
- Lisa Provolone: Thank you very much. Whatever happened to love? Whatever happened to romance?
- Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone: Whatever happened to waiting till the wedding night?”
Marisa Tomei - Lisa Provolone
Sylvester Stallone - Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone

“Come on Harry, the maiden fair waits for her knight in shining corduroy.”

Leslie William Nielsen - Richard Vickers

“Well, it's a crazy fucked up world and we're all just floating along waiting for someone who can walk on water, man.”
Michael A. Goorjian - Bob

“I've done nothing to deserve this anguish.”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Jay Trotter

“- Harlan 'Flat-top' Meyers: I've been waiting for you!
- Andre Krimm: You should be waiting for the guy that cut your hair!”
Tom Whitenight - Harlan 'Flat-top' Meyers
Sinbad - Andre Krimm

“- Salim: I want to talk to Omar about business.
- Johnny: I dunno where he is.
- Salim: Is it worth waiting?
- Johnny: In my experience, it's always worth waiting for Omo.”
Derrick Branche - Salim
Daniel Day-Lewis - Johnny

“I'm sorry I can't be more optimistic, Doctor, but we've got a long road ahead of us. It's like having sex. It's a painstaking and arduous task that seems to go on and on forever, and just when you think things are going your way, nothing happens.”

Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“My darling Isabelle, I can wait no longer. The final foolish victims, will be here very soon. And then, once again, we shall be together for all time...”

Felix Ward - Kreon