Waiting Rooms Quotes

• If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

  Jules Renard

  Space, House, Would Be

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• I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hate, Chance, Built

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• Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Faces

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• Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Waiter

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• When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Heart, Giving, Helping

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Immortality, Robes

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

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• How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

  Rick Warren

  Grief, Fishing, People

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

  Jenna Morasca

  Waiting, Rooms, Ominous

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• The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

  Christopher Moore

  Doctors, Boring, Timeless

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.57, Zondervan

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• Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Rigor Mortis, Doing Nothing

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

  Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

  War, Poetry Is, Waiting

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• Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.

  Karen Chance

  Hell, Dumped, Waiting

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.51, Penguin

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• She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Years, Wind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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

  John C. McGinley

  People, Calm, Terror

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• Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Long

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• 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."

  David Sedaris

  Asking Questions, People, Office

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• To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Thinking, Wish

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• I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Goal, Tears, Would Be

  Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.223, SCB Distributors

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• Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

  Joan Lindsay

  Falling In Love, Art, Burning

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• 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.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Years, Nurse

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• Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Opportunity

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• I went in for an audition [for As Good As It Gets], but the audition was with James L. Brooks. I was the first girl in that morning, and there was a whole waiting room of girls waiting to read for it. So I did my audition, and he asked me to step outside. So I stepped outside, and when he asked me to come back in, he looked at me, and he said, "Well, I'm very excited to work with you on set." And I was, like, "What?" I thought it was a Hollywood blow-off.

  Julie Benz

  Girl, Morning, Blow

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hate, Home, Destiny

  "Marina Abramovic Makes Sundance Shut Up". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

  Josh Ross

  Wall, Kids, Makeup

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