#wait

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#become #come #concern #concerned #continued

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#call #except #getting #hard #hard work

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#corn #ever #first #get #half

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#dull #long #lot #making #movie

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#human #human wisdom #summed #two #up

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004. ↗

— John Fund

#clearly #election #evidence #exaggerating #florida

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#best #better #long #out #put

I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread. ↗

— Gareth Gates

#bit #bread #cheeky #decided #garlic

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#companion #did #drinking #eating #finally

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#far #far less #how #less #odd