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Waiting Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.
- You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all…
- Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
- Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will…
- He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
- It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward…
- And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
- My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a…
- I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and…
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- 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