Top 535 Wait Quotes

Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
Steve Prefontaine
Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can’t wait when the race has begun.
Katherine Harris
To be perfectly honest, I think that as I’m growing older, I’m just growing more impatient. I’ll be very happy if at some point people say, ‘Michael’s grown wiser and softer in his old age.’ But we’ll have to wait and see what my next project is.
Michael Haneke
I can’t wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.
David Gallagher
Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
Al Spalding
My audience went, ‘Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?’ And then they went, ‘Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.’ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
Lady Gaga
I’m humble enough to wait and just chill. I’m having fun just working with these good people, man.
Mike Epps
I can’t wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He’s a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
Tucker Carlson
Change is inevitable, and you can’t stop that change. You say, ‘Wait, stop,’ and it just drives right over you.
Randy Bachman
I can’t wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don’t have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.
Drew Barrymore
I’m at a point where I don’t have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I’m in a comfortable zone, but I’ll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
Ice T
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
You’ve just got to play complementary football; you’ve just got to wait your time.
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they’re dressing like kids.
Paul Feig
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they’ll often start flying off the handle. But I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, you’ve had those times in your life. Everybody has.’
Gilbert Hernandez
Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors’ costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.
Mark Zandi
I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you’ve seen is just the tip of the creature’s tail.
Bong Joon-ho
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden
I don't really have any kind of rigorous or definite ro

I don’t really have any kind of rigorous or definite routine before I go onstage. I like to eat at least an hour or two before I go on. If I can’t do that, I just wait until after. I try and drink lots of water before I go onstage.
Martina McBride
If you think the Obama White House and Ben Rhodes lying to the American people about Iran – and laughing about it – was bad, just wait until Hillary Clinton’s spin doctors get hold of the media.
Wayne LaPierre
Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!
Roger Moore
Don’t wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it.
Nick Petrie
For me, this is a familiar image – people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
I can’t wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn’t the first consideration.
Kelly Lynch
The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.
Kevin Plank
I mean I always wanted to get tattoos, that’s why I got them kind of fast. Because I already knew what I wanted and kind of where I wanted to put everything at, just had to wait for the right time.
Jordan Clarkson
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
Wilbur Wright
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
Chuck Klosterman
My high school wasn’t a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn’t wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It’s really fun to see the girls at reunions now.
Cecily von Ziegesar
I’ve read both books that ‘Beautiful Boy’ is based on, and I can’t wait to see that film. I root for that film.
Peter Hedges
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man’s expectations.
Thomas Becket
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don’t have to ask anyone or play politics. You don’t have to wait for the reviews.
Sandy Koufax
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
Judy Blume
If you sit and wait to feel like you are the most confident person in the room, you are probably going to be left by yourself.
Jacinda Ardern
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I’m searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it’s always visual.
Ellsworth Kelly
If you always wanted to wait for something better, you’d never buy anything, right?
Trip Hawkins
Peter Capaldi is such a brilliant actor, and his Doctor is such a wacky and wonderful character, I can’t wait to see what adventures are in store for him and Bill throughout time and space.
Pearl Mackie
Without a doubt, I’d love to do Broadway. I actually can’t wait to get back to musical theater.
Zac Efron
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’
Clint Eastwood
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Richard Wright
I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you’ll have to wait until January to see them.
Sasha Cohen
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.
Marla Gibbs
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
Joan Lunden
War in men’s eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory’s sake; – Wait a little longer.
Charles Mackay
So much in L.A. is waiting. It’s so irritating. That’s what’s good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don’t have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.
Norm MacDonald
And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.
Lee Ann Womack
Most of us are waiting. We’re waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we’re going to wait forever if we don’t do something more interesting with our lives.
Donald Miller
The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
Joe Henderson
I've dated girls and I always wait for that one right t

I’ve dated girls and I always wait for that one right time to kiss. I don’t kiss on the first date, so I’ll take a girl out to dinners, and we’ll go bowling, and I make sure to charm them before I do it.
Kellan Lutz
I am never happier than when I am on set and getting to act. And I can’t wait for what is yet to come.
Bitsie Tulloch
I’m half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house – so that’s like a very Latin staple. It’s just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can’t wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
Victoria Justice
Director Jai Krishna is an optimist who has a never-say-die attitude. He has impressed me thoroughly with his faith in the industry. Not many are aware of the fact that this man had to wait for almost 30 years in this industry to direct ‘Vanmam,’ his first film.
Vijay Sethupathi
Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for ‘Gold Diggers,’ I said: ‘Hey, wait a minute! Those aren’t my teeth!’
Anna Chlumsky
Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don’t wait for them to go to school and hope for the best.
Tony Buzan
I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.
Michelle Obama