Waiting Period Quotes

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

'Deadpool' took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and my patience more than anything I could've imagined because the screenplay was so good.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

In terms of the timeline, 'The Force Awakens' came out in December of 2015. I got the role in November of 2015. I was auditioning and waiting to hear back when their marketing machine was everywhere. It's like you're going for something that's so high stakes, and you try to remind yourself, 'Okay, stop thinking about it,' and it's everywhere.

What if they had to wait seven days to get their rifles to come to the Alamo and fight?

Amy: "Can I come?" Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back." Amy: "People always say that." Doctor: "Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes

Now there's a seven-day waiting period to buy a gun. Who can stay mad that long?

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

I auditioned 5-6 times for 'Dangal.' I was just waiting for the final call, as there were about 15-16 girls who auditioned for the role.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year.

We don't make announcements until we make announcements.

I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic weapons of any kind should not be for sale in America. For that matter, toy Uzis should not be available for kids, either. There would be a minimum seven-day waiting period between applying for a gun permit and obtaining a gun.

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.