Barbara Park Quotes

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have.

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

I was a chatty kid.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I'm a Sagittarius. We need things done now.

I'm very impatient. I always want more.

The reason that I was so quick was because I was impatient. I couldn't wait to hit the next shot.

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

You have to be patient. I'm not!

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed.

There is no shame in impulse.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.