Rory Bremner Quotes

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]

A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'

Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.