Top 468 Waits Quotes & Sayings

The tree does not die, it waits.

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Time waits for no one.

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

All things come to him who waits

Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such obscure voices, but their music saved my life - I didn't know who I was before I heard Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.

I'd love to do a song with Tom Waits. Around when I was like 17 or 18, my buddy, D-Money, put me on the Tom Waits and I literally at that point got every one of his albums and kind of studied his music. I like that he provides an entire world for the listener. He's hopefully someone that I could vibe with down the line. I'm not sure how it would sound or even how it could work, but he's always been a huge influence.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

God waits for us to create him.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.

Truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Joy waits on welcome, not time.

I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'

Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain

Time waits for no ovary.

When you consider Life as sacred,Nature waits on you

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?

Time waits for no man.

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

To those who will see, the world waits.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

He who waits on God loses no time.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

death is always sudden however long one waits.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

Love rarely waits for permission.

Applause waits on success.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.