I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. – Barack Obama
I’m not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it’s always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It’s more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week. – Alia Shawkat
In England, there’s a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they’re not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it’s important to create the work. – Aml Ameen
Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994. – Alberto Tomba
But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews… I know, it’s part of the job, but that doesn’t imply I have to like it. – Andrew Eldritch
My assistant says I’m an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts… about 4,000 now. Maybe I’ll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts. – Bruce Vilanch
Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we’d sit around at night while waiting for a shot. – Bill Paxton
Well ‘Monday Night Football,’ I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it’s a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it’s a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you’re a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It’s different than when you play at noon. – Bud Grant
Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it. – Bill Rancic
When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new – ‘This is what I’ve been waiting for!’ – and some people don’t want or need the change – ‘I like my old one.’ – Amy Heckerling
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand. – Barbara Corcoran
Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port. – Buzz Aldrin
A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves. – Alice Oswald
I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work. – Brooke Elliott
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. – Baltasar Gracian
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord’s promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. – Charles Stanley
I’m waiting for the time when I fail – because we all fail – and I’m ready, I’ll take up carpentry. – Adrian Edmondson
One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing – a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn’t realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried. – Carol Vorderman
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes. – Camille Paglia
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going… Concentrate on something useful. – Arnold Bennett
I’m not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process. – Ann Voskamp
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. – Booth Tarkington
Where the ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren’t waiting around to find out. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
I am still waiting for the day that they say, ‘Time’s up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.’ – Benny Blanco
What’s great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they’re so fast, they grow overnight. – Bonnie Bassler
Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There’s no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there’s no dress rehearsal anymore. – Autumn Reeser
Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant – Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs – as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They’ll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I’ll always be together with the other two laureates. – Ada Yonath
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Bertrand Russell