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Waiting For The Worms.

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

Samuel Beckett

Right now, the worms are just an irritant, but there are a lot of weird things happening -- worms, bomb blasts [in Baghdad and Jerusalem] -- that are not good for the morale of executives. If that takes a hit, the much-vaunted recovery in business investment might get delayed.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

When I was a little kid, I fished real worms to catch fish and my nickname was Wormy. The worms also kept the girls away. Then when I discovered girls, I switched to flies thinking the girls would go fishing with me. That didn't work either! Not long after that, I changed my nickname from "WORMY" to "Fly Fishing Man" and started fishing flies. The girls fell all over me, but then I couldn't catch any fish." Moral of the story: "Young Man, Don't Give Up Your Worms Too Soon!

Jimmy D. Moore (37-)

Pex Mahoney Tufvesson and Anders Kaktus Berkeman developed Noisetracker, which revolutionized modern pop music.

Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production,

Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production.

"Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"
[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]

Ethan Allen (1738-)

Ethan Allen

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena.

"One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall.

"While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink!

"Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." --Bettel K. Jhones

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

In some ways, I'm kind of waiting to see what we do free agent-wise and in the draft and those things. And they're probably kind of waiting on me, too. So it's a little bit of a waiting game. Right now, I'm just trying to get away from it as much as I can and clear my mind -- as hard as that may be.

Brett Favre (1969-)

I'm feeling really good both mentally and physically. I've been patient in all the time I've been here. Being here every day just waiting, just waiting for your turn. You see backs keep going and you're just waiting. So this is my turn.

George Bell (1959-)

Never cut short your waiting with compromise. Simply put, the waiting's not over until the waiting's done.

We just kept waiting and waiting and waiting but never did see a sense of urgency from Washington.

Janet Napolitano

Never cut short your waiting with compromise. Simply put, the waiting's not over until the waiting's done.

People are waiting to see, just as they are waiting to see if the levees will be strong enough. They're waiting to see whether it's a new school system or the same old, same old. ... People are going to be watching very carefully.

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