Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“What I have to watch against is impatience at waiting His time.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 408).
Jimmy Stewart (1908–1997) American film and stage actor
On roles he looks for, as quoted in "Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart dead at 89" at CNN (2 July 1997) http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9707/02/stewart.obit.7p/
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 12, “Raven’s Dance” (p. 392).
“You know, I've always figured the waiting is what I get paid for. The acting I do free.”
Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973) Romanian American actor
Source: On the set of Soylent Green (1973), in response to a fellow cast member's complaints; as quoted in In the Arena : An Autobiography (1995) by Charlton Heston, p. 477 https://archive.org/details/inarenaautobiogr0000hest_l8c1/page/476/mode/2up
“When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
