Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~By Richard Holloway ~
As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
~By William Empson ~
When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.
~By Mike Shinoda ~
I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.
~By Steve Waugh ~
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.
~By Robert Benchley ~
I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
~By Gary Miller ~
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
~By Douglas Haig ~
Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
~By Iggy Pop ~
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
~By George Washington Carver ~
I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
~By Wendell Johnson ~
Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
~By Mother Maribel ~
I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see hoe great it will get!
~By Stevie Ray Vaughan ~
We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.
~By Graham Nash ~
Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.
~By Jeremy London ~
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.
~By Jacques Verges ~
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
~By Tom Glazer ~
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
~By Bill Frist ~
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
~By Ingmar Bergman ~
But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
~By William Scranton ~
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
~By Cao Yu ~
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
~By John L. Lewis ~
I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.
~By Sherry Stringfield ~
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
~By Ian Anderson ~
I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
~By Jason Biggs ~
I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~By William Gurnall ~
You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.
~By Andy Lau ~
With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.
~By Mike Epps ~
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
~By Ruby Wax ~
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
~By Hailee Steinfeld ~
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
~By Zahi Hawass ~
It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
~By Carl Hubbell ~
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
~By Benjamin Haydon ~
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
~By Craig Bruce ~
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
~By Steven Brust ~
So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
What would you say? And why are you waiting?
~By Stephen Levine ~
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
~By James Dobson ~
We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
~By Don Bluth ~
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.
~By Ken Follett ~
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
~By Buzz Aldrin ~
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
~By Ayn Rand ~
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
~By Alan Clark ~
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.
~By Richard Jewell ~
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
~By Lynda Barry ~
It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.
~By Christian Bale ~
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
~By John Boehner ~
This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
~By Sarah Brady ~
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
~By Hun Sen ~
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
~By Stephen Levine ~
I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
~By Don Marquis ~
The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
~By Jane Fonda ~
I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
~By Nick Lowe ~
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
~By Taylor Swift ~
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
~By Louis Freeh ~
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
~By John Cameron ~
You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.
~By Michael Aspel ~
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
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