Waiting quotes

“How much of human life is lost in waiting?”
Sir John Hurt - Professor Oxley

“- Distinguished Gentleman: If we don't get that piece then we'll have to wait five thousand years for another alignment.
- Manfred Powell: I don't know about you but I'm not planning to give that much time to this enterprise.”
Richard Johnson - Distinguished Gentleman
Iain Glen - Manfred Powell

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
Liz Taylor

“When people get hooked on the new age life they end up sitting at home burning candles for Mister Right, when Mister Good-Enough-For-Right-Now is waiting at the corner bar!”
Molly Shannon - Eve

“Wait all ya want, 'cause there's no end.”
Jack Plotnick - Accountant

- Rushon: Have you ever had a man wait seven weeks to "hit that"?
- Nikki: What are you asking her for? She never made a man wait thirty minutes.
- Bunz: Do I smell a whore?
Tommy Davidson - Rushon
Tamala Jones - Nikki
Jamie Foxx - Bunz

“You don't keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something. When you want to say fuck you.”
Al Pacino - Jimmy Hoffa

“You're really lucky, you know that? You didn't have to wait your whole life to do something special.”

Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“If we wait too long we shrivel up like some imported apricot sitting on the shelf in Waitrose.”
Lesley Manville - Fiona

“He's waited for this night... he's waited for me... I've waited for him...”

Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode

“I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“The Ring had a will of its own, and a way of slipping from one hand to be found by another, so that it might at last get back to its master. And there, the ring lay at the bottom of the great river Anduin for thousands of years.”
William Squire - Gandalf

“She's getting fat sitting around waiting for you to fall in love with her again.”

Lesley Manville - Cyril

“You made me wait 30 years to prove to the world I could kick your ass! And that's what I'm going to do, kick your ass!”

Robert De Niro - Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen

“My old man always told me good things come to those who wait.”
Jasper Pääkkönen - Felix Kendrickson

“- Theseus: The most beautiful girl in the world is here in Sparta.
- Pirithous: She's just a child!
- Theseus: I'll ripen her like grapes; I'll age her like wine. When she ages just enough, I'll taste her.”
Stellan Skarsgård - Theseus
Jim Carter - Pirithous

“- Frank Bannister: Catch you later, Hiles.
- Sgt. Hiles: My tour of duty runs another 85 years! There's a piece of dirt up here with your name on it, Bannister! I'm waiting for you, you little maggot!”
Michael J. Fox - Frank Bannister
R. Lee Ermey - Sgt. Hiles

“I've waited all my life to find someone I love as much as I love you. And I'm just not going to let this or anyone come between us.”

Hugh Grant - Michael Felgate

“I've been waiting my whole life, I just don't know what the hell for.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Amelia Warren

“Let me tell you something, Captain. Aside from losing one's mind, there is very little to do for an old Captain besides sit and whittle and whistle and wait for the postman to bring him his pension check. It would just be a damn shame for a man such as yourself, who's put in the time, to come up short in the end.”

Stephen Lang - Col. Abraham Biggs

“I don't want my resturant to be a place where people sit and eat. I want people to sit at that table and be sick with longing.”
Bradley Cooper - Adam Jones

“Burn this letter when you read it, like you mother would have done, and wait for me.”

Sam Shepard - James

“Time was on crack today.”
Omar Epps - Mike

“You want to kill me, don't you, Tucker? Well, get a number and get in line.”

John Lithgow - Qualen

“The Bible says to never take revenge, to leave it to the Lord. But I wasn't prepared to wait that long.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Darius Kincaid