„I've been waiting for that! (After an audience member requests "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.)“

„Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun. So I've been told…“

—  Phil Collins English musician, songwriter and actor 1951

Live at Wembley Stadium DVD (July 1987)

„I've been waiting for the guide to come and take me by the hand.“

—  Ian Curtis musician and songwriter 1956 - 1980

Song Disorder

„I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever."“

—  Sarah Dessen, book Keeping the Moon

Keeping the Moon (1999)

„Why should I wait until tomorrow?
I've already been
I've already seen
All the sorrow that's in store“

—  Pete Doherty English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist 1979

"Beg Steal or Borrow"
Lyrics and poetry

„Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?“

—  Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890 - 1995

„I've been watchin birds more than insects recently, and the thing I've found with pigeons is: they've got wings but they walk a lot“

—  Karl Pilkington English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer 1972

Podcast Series 3 Episode 3
On Nature

„But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.“

—  Jodi Picoult, book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

„You are everything I've waited for.“

—  William Fitzsimmons American musician 1978

Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Forsake All Others

„I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt“

—  Susan Mallery American author 1950

Source: Under Her Skin

„"I've been waiting to be arrested all day. I'm disappointed!" [Mair replies] "We're all with you on that one."“

—  Eddie Mair Scottish broadcaster 1965

Reporter waiting to be arrested on cycle-path (a woman jogger had been arrested and cautioned earlier that week)
From PM and Broadcasting House

„Free as a bird to settle where I will.“

—  William Wordsworth, book The Prelude

Bk. I, l. 1.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
Context: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze,
A visitant that while it fans my cheek
Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings
From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.
Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come
To none more grateful than to me; escaped
From the vast city, where I long had pined
A discontented sojourner: now free,
Free as a bird to settle where I will.

„Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew.
Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens,
I've been in love with you.“

—  Dan Fogelberg singer-songwriter, musician 1951 - 2007

Longer.
Song lyrics, Phoenix (1979)

„No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„I've been waiting at this frontier
And it seems like a hundred years,
But I couldn't see past the gate
I couldn't see past the hate.“

—  Mike Oldfield English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

„It's strange that all birds don't fly in the same way... I've heard that the wings of aeroplanes all conform to the same formula, whereas birds each conform to a formula of their own... All birds are perhaps a little wrong, because an absolute once-and-for-all formula for a bird has never been found, just as all novels are bad because the correct formula for a novel has never been found.“

—  Halldór Laxness, book Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)

Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)

„This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.“

—  Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

„So I wait for the day
when I'll hear the key
as it turns in the lock
And the guard will say to me,
"Oh my patient prisoner
you waited for this day and finally,
you are free!
You are free!
You are free!"“

—  Conor Oberst American musician 1980

From A Balance Beam
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

„Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.“

—  Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959

Before and After http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21375/Before_and_After
From the poems written in English

„I've been travellin' a hard road
Baby lookin' for someone exactly like you
I've been carryin' my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come shining through
Someone like you
Make it all worth while
Someone like you
Make me satisfied
Someone exactly like you.“

—  Van Morrison Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

Someone Like You
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)