Demetri Martin Quotes

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

I never told my parents that I was doing boxing. They only came to know after I became state champion and my name and picture came in the newspaper.

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

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

I know that I want to wait for something that I really feel great about.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

The experience of this sweet life.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Some things are worth the wait.

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

[Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win.