“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“the words have come and gone,
I sit ill.
the phone rings, the cats sleep.
Linda vacuums.
I am waiting to live,
waiting to die.
I wish I could ring in some bravery.
it's a lousy fix”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996), Lines from "So now?" - p.402 (circa 1994. He died in March 1994, aged 73.)
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“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”
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(1927–1990) American singer, actor, songwriter and composer
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“So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.”
George Gamow
(1904–1968) Russian-American physicist and science writer
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Martin Joseph Routh
(1755–1854) Classical scholar and college head
Standard reply to people proposing changes in the running of Oxford University; quoted in Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), p. 37
“I am coming; I am coming. It is just. But wait a little.”
Pope Alexander VI
(1431–1503) pope of the Catholic Church 1492-1503
Last words (August, 1503), as quoted in The Life of Cesare Borgia (1912) by Rafael Sabatini, Book IV The Bull Cadent, Chapter I: The Death of Alexander VI