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Waiting Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking…
- That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have…
- Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.
- I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
- there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting
- We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted…
- soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m.,…
- Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't…
- lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.
- And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair…
- That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there…
- in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,…
- there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times…
- The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there…
- Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try".…
- I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little…
- The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a…
- little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little…
- That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup…
- there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.
- I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
More Waiting Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone… — Christian Bale
- My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. — Tyra Banks
- So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. — John Perry Barlow
- The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry