Quotes About Timing

When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

If someone wants to order a cake, I might say, 'OK, when do you want to eat it? What time are your guests arriving? 6 P.M.? So you might be done with dinner around 8:30? Fine, you can pick up the cake at 4. Any earlier than that, it won't be good, it won't be fresh.'

I've always worked toward, and felt comfortable with, you know, pausing and guiding the audience on a longer bit.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

I never really saw 'The Kids in the Hall' until after we started 'The State.'

We lost our jobs at 'Heart and Lights' at one-o'clock that day. At two-o'clock, I got the call from Telsey telling me I was cast in 'Hamilton.'

How many consultants does it take to change a lightbulb? I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.

Everyone and everything has a time to die.

God knows just when we need a friend. — Dawn Lilly —

Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time! —Proverbs 15:23

H)e had learned the primary rule about danger. It would come if it would come. You could try to be ready for it, you could plan on it, you could even expect it, but it would come when it wanted to come.

All the planning in the world, men, can't compare to perfectly timed good luck.

Magic," Martha whispered breathlessly, "is diplomacy. It isn't just saying the words. It's who says them, how he says them, and when he says them.

Antes de que cese el trueno, cae la lluvia.»

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

You come as opportunely as cheese on macaroni.

For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord's timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.

Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

The 'Living-Wage Campaign' at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it's going to strike, but wonder only when and how hard.

Hard-boiled eggs are wonderful when they're really done right. I bring the water to a boil, and then I put in the eggs. And then I boil them for - well, it depends on the size of the egg - maybe eight minutes.

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.