Top 535 Wait Quotes

I can’t wait to see The Grinch. It’s so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I’m stoked. It’s like real life.
Tina Yothers
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
Donald Cargill
Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can’t wait for it to be more than 50%.
Anne M. Mulcahy
I think in the summer it’s a good idea to use a body lotion after your shower; bath or sunbath. If you wait until you are dried out, your skin will not only look rough, but it will feel uncomfortable too.
Amanda Blake
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
Bobby Knight
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Nikola Tesla
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability – the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
Aleksandar Hemon
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I’ve learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.
Louise Erdrich
That’s been the secret to ‘Gas Monkey’: Move fast. I opened the first restaurant within a year and a half. Most people wait five years. I always move quickly, and in today’s market, no matter what you’re in, you can recover from a mistake faster than you can recover from not doing.
Richard Rawlings
There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he’d have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.
Leslie Nielsen
Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you

Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.
Miroslav Klose
When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.
Dolly Parton
We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.
Boris Johnson
Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that’s not all I want to do. And I think I’ve proven to some people – the ones paying attention – that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.
Marlon Wayans
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
Stanley Hauerwas
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn’t, and when it does, we may well reject it.
Spencer Tracy
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Anne Lamott
There’s so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.
Penelope Cruz
Food-wise, I’m trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that’s helpful. Luckily, if I don’t go to the gym for two weeks, I’m not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, ‘Just wait a few more years. You’ll feel it.’
Martin Garrix
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there’s more!
Thomas Pynchon
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
James Reston
Someone taught me this really lovely thing, which is when you’re panicking or thinking, ‘I can’t do this, I can’t do this,’ you just say, ‘Right. Hi, negative thoughts. Stop bothering me. If you just wait there, I’m going to do this job, then I’ll come back and talk to you later.’
Zoe Ball
At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.
Godfried Danneels
My friends have said, ‘Wait, you’re pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you’re interested in science?’ I have to just hold my head and go, ‘Do you hear yourself?’ By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.
Auli’i Cravalho
I remember leaving the hospital – thinking, ‘Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don’t know beans about babies! I don’t have a license to do this.’ We’re just amateurs.
Anne Tyler
Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.
Moshe Dayan
I don’t wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.
Mariano Rivera
I know I’m happy and can’t wait to see where my career will go next. This isn’t the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
LaToya London
I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into ‘Second City.’ When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at ‘Second City.’ And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.
Steve Carell
It used to bother me – having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I’d fit in, but I hated them and couldn’t wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.
Lily Collins
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.
Anatole Broyard
For me, there’s cinema, which I love and would fight for, and then there’s also entertainment, and I see them as very, very different. But sure, I’d love to do a blockbuster. I can’t wait for someone to tell me, ‘Explosion, run!’
Stacy Martin
As part of our renewal – we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.
Nong Duc Manh
No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.
Jesse James
I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with. And I’m lucky enough to be in a position where I can wait six months for a project that really interests me.
Kirsten Dunst
I’ve noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know ‘Can’t Hardly Wait.’ I got the goth kids who know ‘Buffy.’ I got this wide spectrum of people who range from like 8 to 13 who seem to know ‘Scooby-Doo.’ Then I get the international people who seem to know ‘Austin Powers’ and ‘The Italian Job.’
Seth Green
I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn’t wait to get away from that. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a spiritual person.
Jeff Lemire
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono
A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.
Nicole Ari Parker
If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour.
Cornel West
It’s easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he’s hypnotized!
Joey Santiago
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, ‘Wait, I was there.’ That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.
Simon Winchester
I’ve been trying to do films for years. So I’ve decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
Gwen Stefani
I know this is rather trivial – I will not be very deep about this – but it’s great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, ‘Okay,’ instead of, ‘You have to wait two months.’
Caprice Bourret
I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I’m going to be excited to play for that team, and I can’t wait to see myself in ‘Madden’ on that team.
Robert Griffin III
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
I can’t wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own.
Eve
I’m not here to perform. I’m here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
Ace Frehley
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits – and she can wait infinitely.
Rajneesh
I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don’t know if it’s because I’m versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can’t wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.
Marina and the Diamonds