Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

Devdutt Pattanaik

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Jenna Morasca

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Gary Shteyngart

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

Chris Hadfield

One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.

John C. McGinley

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

Kelley Armstrong

Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Darien Mickens

When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the ground. I thought he was just going into shock, and I was trying to calm him down.

Brian Roper

We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.

Dylan Hunter

We have a young team and as veterans, we have to calm everyone down.

Johnson Honimae

There is a lot of fear. People are just hoping the military will calm things down.

Ariel Sharon

There is no doubt that the Palestinians are making efforts for the withdrawal to take place in a calm fashion,

Robbie Earl

We're just trying to mature. We've got a lot of freshmen who really don't know what to expect. The coaches are just trying to calm us down and get us on the right track, but jitters are great. That's why you play this game, to have those jitters and have that opportunity to be successful.

Nick Young

We're just trying to calm down, listen to (Floyd) and play our game like we've been playing in getting victories.

Danny Sullivan

This will probably calm some of this thing down.

Channing Pollock

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed