Scott Westerfeld Quotes

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.

You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

No crowd ever waited at the gates of patience.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

Patience is something that, as a young man, I didn't have - when waiting for parts to arrive or waiting for people to behave as I wanted them to.

I hate it when people are late, and I hate being late.

It has felt like the World Cup was never going to come for me.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

I was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.