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 ~
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
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 ~
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 ~
The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
~By Percy Ross ~
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
~By Jules Renard ~
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
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 was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
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 ~
You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
~By Curt Flood ~
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
~By John Mason Brown ~
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 ~
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges.
~By Joe Lockhart ~
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
~By Ernest Newman ~
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 ~
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
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 ~
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
~By Ella Baker ~
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 ~
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.
~By Joe Manchin ~
You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
~By Craig Bruce ~
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
~By Dorothee Solle ~
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
~By Anna Neagle ~
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
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 ~
His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
~By Charlotte Curtis ~
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.
~By Jeremy London ~
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
~By Bruce Catton ~
We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
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 ~
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
~By Tim Allen ~
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?
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
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 ~
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 ~
Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
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.
~By Cynthia McKinney ~
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 ~
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
~By Richard Brautigan ~
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
~By A. A. Milne ~
No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.
~By Joe Theismann ~
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
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 ~
Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
~By Rick Renzi ~
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.
~By Bruce Catton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
~By Ron Livingston ~
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
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 ~
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
~By Alberto Moravia ~
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
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.
~By John Hewson ~
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
~By Jet Li ~
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
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 ~
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
~By Joss Whedon ~
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
~By Alan Brien ~
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
~By Curtis Sliwa ~
Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
~By Buzz Aldrin ~
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 ~
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
~By Roger Zelazny ~
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
~By Don Marquis ~
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
~By Dave Barry ~
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
~By Giorgio Armani ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!
~By Sid Meier ~
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
~By Garrett Fort ~
No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
~By Ian Anderson ~
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
People are always waiting to be discovered.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
~By Edward de Bono ~
When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
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 ~
This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
~By Clara Barton ~
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
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 ~
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
~By Sharon Stone ~
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
~By Dick York ~
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