anxious anticipation Quotes

I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.

...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.

Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

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

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

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.

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

I'm always trepidatious and excited about what I do. I wouldn't choose to do something, unless I am really excited about it.

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.

We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.

I am anxious to see what life is going to bring next.

Drink this," she says. "What is it?" my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. "What's going to happen?" "Can't tell you that. Just trust me." I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.

As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.

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