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

— Christopher Moore , book Practical Demonkeeping

Source: Practical Demonkeeping

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American writer of comic fantasy 1957

R.S. Thomas book The Echoes Return Slow

Source: "The Echoes Return Slow" in The Echoes Return Slow (1988)

“Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days
Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“Ah! I would be a Doctor! (…) Ah! Doctor! Doctor! Walking through the roads, through the streets, though the squares, through the rooms, receiving all the honors: "Doctor, what have you done today? How are you, doctor?"”

Lima Barreto (1881–1922) Brazilian writer

This feeling was simply divine!
Recordações do Escrivão Isaias Caminha (1909)

“The other night was like when my daughter was being born and I was in the waiting room. You are waiting for good news and obviously the good news didn't come through this time.”

Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

20-Feb-2009, Hull Daily Mail
Waiting for news on Jimmy Bullard's knee injury. Unfortunately, it turned out Bullard wasn't even pregnant.

“He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Source: 2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
Context: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.