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

“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

“All good things come to those who wait.”
Robert De Niro - Sam

“I told you, a watched pot never boils.”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“I've always found this a trying time of the year. The leaves not yet out. Mud everywhere you go. Frosty mornings gone. Sunny mornings not yet come. Give me blizzards and frozen pipes, but not this, nothing time. Not this, waiting room of the world.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“- Holland March: What the hell's going on?
- Jackson Healy: Oh, you know, there's a guy coming to kill us, that kind of crap.”
Ryan Gosling - Holland March
Russell Crowe - Jackson Healy

“- Cpl. Bill Smollett 2nd: You will marry me when it's over, won't you, Jane? You won't be mad at me because I didn't marry you now?
- Jane Hilton: Of course I won't be mad. But you take care of yourself.”

Robert Walker - Cpl. Bill Smollett 2nd
Jennifer Jones - Jane Hilton

“- Blu: Actually all the survival guides say to sit and wait. And... and help will come.
- Jewel: No one is coming!”
Jesse Eisenberg - Blu
Anne Hathaway - Jewel