Ian Mcewan Quotes

I'm like a child inside and I really get excited, so sometimes when I'm trying to go to bed, I'm so excited about the next day that I can't go to sleep.

I've been dying to play.

I just can't wait for the future.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

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.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

On the other hand, we worked a year on this and some people are going to watch it in a night and go, "We want more!" And there is something I miss about the longing and the anticipation for the next episode.

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

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

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

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it