Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

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

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

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

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

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.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

No crowd ever waited at the gates of patience.

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'm very impatient.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

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.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, what are you waiting for?” “The Second Coming of Christ!” I snapped.

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

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.