Top 1200 Waiting Around Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed around, waiting for offers.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger than the men. We're not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.

I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

With you i found myself. You are the one i was waiting for, when i didn't even realize i was waiting. -dr. Emma Sinclair-

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.

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?

You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things happen to me. They do. They have to go ahead and happen. You watch – you wait… Things still happen here and something is waiting to happen to me. I can tell. Recently my life feels like a bloodcurdling joke. Recently my life has taken on *form* Something is waiting. I am waiting. Soon, it will stop waiting – any day now. Awful things can happen any time. This is the awful thing.

I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

Even after I got started in TV and the movies, I didn't sit around waiting on parts. I kept busy.

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

For MLB players, sitting around aimlessly waiting to heal is never a good idea.

It's better to take the good that comes your way instead of sitting around and waiting.

I would walk around in all these cities we lived in because my dad would move around so much. I would just walk the streets with a ball in my hand, and my mom holding my other handing waiting to find a hoop to play in. That was my first love of basketball.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

Anytime you can get some congratulatory - anything said or the guys waiting around the green - that's always nice. You're out here so many weeks a year, and sometimes away from your family, and the tour kind of becomes your family. So when you have these guys hanging around, it's special.

I firmly believe the Senate should see more voting and debate and less standing around and waiting for backroom deals.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?

I can't walk around like I used to, and there's always paparazzi waiting outside the studio.

I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the secret. I keep feeling there's some sort of secret that's going to passed on from a director." He went, "Oh no. There is none. You've just got to on and do it and make mistakes and figure it out."

I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

Waiting is a huge part of being a refugee. You're waiting at borders to get across. You're waiting for transportation. The waiting that people do in Turkey to get aboard one of these boats is incredible. And then when they finally do get aboard, it's the last place they want to be. It's harrowing. That is the horrible irony of a refugee's life. You wait and wait for the next step, and when you get to the next step, it's awful. You don't want to be doing it. But you have to. You have to keep moving forward.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.