Quotes: Waiting

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn’t been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

It’s hard to find a play that’s right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren’t they?

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman – Universal’s doing a snowboarding movie. I’m not in it yet, but I’m supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I’m waiting to hear back from them.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights – compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.