„Man was born to die. What did it mean? Hanging around and waiting. Waiting for the ‘A train.’ Waiting for a pair of big breasts on some August night in a Vegas hotel room. Waiting for the mouse to sing. Waiting for the snake to grow wings. Hanging around.“

— Charles Bukowski

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„People are just waiting around to get certified.“
— Frank Zappa
„The tree does not die. It waits.“
— Hermann Hesse
„I was clear, Alice Toklas says and very often mistaken but anyway I am clear I am a good American, I am slow-minded and quickly clear in expression, I am certain that I see everything that is seen and in between I stand around but I do not wait, no American can wait he can stand around and do nothing but he cannot wait, that is why he is not like Milton who served by standing and waiting, Americans can neither serve nor wait, they can stand and sit down and get up and walk around but they can neither serve nor wait.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.“
— Patricia Briggs
„We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it.“
— Malala Yousafzai