Art Buchwald Quotes

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

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

Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

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

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

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.

As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.

Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.