John Irving Quotes

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Wait and see.

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

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child.

A watched supper dish never fills!

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.