I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. – Sidney Altman
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. – Terry Pratchett
I was in San Francisco for ‘Trauma’ and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it’s all a waiting game. And then, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ came up, and I was really interested and read for it. – Taylor Kinney
The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. – Tyra Banks
I’m a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don’t want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make… of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen. – Tobias Lindholm
I don’t like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don’t like waiting in airports when my bags are lost. – Steve Waugh
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. – Wislawa Szymborska
I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years – which they do – and I go up there and play a leading role. – Sandra Oh
With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now. – Tawakkol Karman
My life’s ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I’m just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn’t rung. – Toby Young
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone – but that’s a price you pay. – Samantha Mumba
From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard. – Sheldon Lee Glashow
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting. – Yannick Noah
I can’t stand that – those women in ‘Waiting to Exhale’ now. I can’t stand them. But that’s because I’m 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it. – Terry McMillan
It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. – Winston Churchill
Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You’ve been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her. – Tony Randall
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You’re watching a great television show you’re really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along. – Ted Sarandos
I don’t care what anybody else is wearing. I feel like they’re all waiting to see what I have on. If you really want to know the truth, that’s what I think. They’re waiting to see what I’mma do next. – Two Chainz
But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole. – Sally Field
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. – Stephen Hopkins
I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind. – Siegfried Lenz
We’ve been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M. – Vonda Shepard
I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get! – Stevie Ray Vaughan
When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about. – Winona Ryder