Wait Ten Minutes

Famous quotes containing the words wait, ten and/or minutes:

“Virtue runs before the muse,
and defies her skill;
she is rapt and doth refuse
to wait a painter’s will.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt ... [ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“The first man to discover Chinook salmon in the Columbia, caught 264 in a day and carried them across the river by walking on the backs of other fish. His greatest feat, however, was learning the Chinook jargon in 15 minutes from listening to salmon talk.”
—State of Oregon, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)