Top 535 Wait Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Wait Quotes from famous people such as Peter Falk, Uzodinma Iweala, Douglas Coupland, Jermaine O’Neal, Chandra Wilson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a charac

The whole thing was an actor’s dream – getting a character that tickles you so much you can’t wait to act as him.
Peter Falk
Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn’t end.
Uzodinma Iweala
I’m a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I’m disciplined, but I’m not patient.
Douglas Coupland
I cannot wait to get to Boston and start to practice with the rest of the team in pursuit of a championship.
Jermaine O’Neal
If I want to know how I’m doing at work, I don’t wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.
Chandra Wilson
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it’s more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
Nipsey Hussle
I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?’
Monica Potter
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Douglas Coupland
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
Luis Bunuel
News events are like Texas weather. If you don’t like it, wait a minute.
Jessica Savitch
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn’t make you feel happy and fulfilled. I’d rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.
Amanda Crew
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Eugenio Montale
I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn’t matter to a certain segment of the populace.
Sarah Jessica Parker
If I’m making everyone wait, which happens… at least charm it on a bit. Go, ‘Oh I’m so sorry I’m late.’ Make up something.
Guy Sebastian
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn’t wait to get back to Ardmore.
Olivia Wilde
Any normal candidate who mocked the disabled or made crude reference to a woman’s menstrual cycle or dabbled in 9/11 conspiracy theories would be out of the race. Trump’s fans remain. And wait for more.
Pamela Meyer
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common – timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don’t get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I’m not acting; I’m just expressing myself.
Lukas Haas
Now, I’m not suggesting we’re going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we’ve come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come – go, as well.
Michael Chertoff
I’m insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can’t wait to have babies.
Ginnifer Goodwin
Don’t fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don’t go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don’t flow.
Kim Harrison
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
‘Frida’ was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn’t wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
Salma Hayek
I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes – click, click, click.
Paul Prudhomme
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society – at least on the surface. There’s a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They’re not too loud, they’re not too quiet, but sometimes it’s a little too perfect.
Alexander Skarsgard
I’ve been watching ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I can’t wait for ‘Bored to Death’ to come back, it’s one of my faves.
Michelle Forbes
The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
Paul Auster
I’m a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.
Jazz Jennings
When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I’ve tried to tell my kids that you don’t wait until you’re in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
Andrew Young
The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.
Guo Guangchang
We make it very clear, we don't want our fans to say ov

We make it very clear, we don’t want our fans to say over-the-line things. But if someone is saying, ‘I can’t wait for Dave Portnoy to go out of business,’ I don’t care if our fans say, ‘You’re the worst.’
Dave Portnoy
There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.
Piper Perabo
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
Bootsy Collins
I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
Claudio Reyna
Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can’t wait to visit again.
Joe Nichols
I’m not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I’ll get it.
Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair
It didn’t rain today, so I didn’t have to work. Why don’t you have to sit around and wait until it rains?
Linda Fiorentino
My plea is that don’t wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl’s life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.
Michael Connelly
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can’t wait that long.
Robert Duvall
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch
Everyone’s supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. ‘You’re a rapper. You’re supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club – that’s all you do. What are you doing collecting art? What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you’re getting out of the zone.’ People hate when people cross lines.
Jay-Z
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
James Buchan
I haven’t seen it this busy since I’ve been an IndyCar driver. So I think that’s a great kind of thing that’s happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it’s an event that I’m very proud to be part of. I love it. I can’t wait to come back next year.
Dan Wheldon
I was petrified about ‘I’m in You.’ I couldn’t wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.
Peter Frampton
I used to wait tables at Gladstone’s, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome – an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months.
Sufe Bradshaw
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
I can’t wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.
Paula Abdul
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.
Al Lewis
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
John Burroughs
I’ve learned to wait ’til an idea is worth making. That’s not really a lesson I’ve learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there’s no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
H. Jon Benjamin
Nobody in college races home and says, ‘I can’t wait to see the news! I can’t wait to see who CBS is going to hire!’
Lewis Black
‘Line of Duty’ does seem to be a bit old school as in people are happy to watch it, talk about it, wait for the next episode, and get back on it.
Adrian Dunbar