Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

What our profession is all about is interacting with people.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

Oh yeah, waiting sucks.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.