#waiting

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#accept #go #let go #must #planned

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#cry #easily #i #movie #phone

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. ↗

— Joan Collins

#book #career #charge #dynasty #library

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#character #concentration #demands #energy #get

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#bus #every #five #half #hour

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back. ↗

— Ken Follett

#call #calling #days #does #i

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#citizen #congress #consideration #determine #every

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running? ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#each #everyone #i #i wonder #looking