Andre Leon Talley Quotes

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

Oh yeah, waiting sucks.

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.

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

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.

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

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

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

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

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

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

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.

Sitting on a cornflake, Waiting for the van to come...

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

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.