Quotes About Timing

We were in love, but the timing wasn't right. And all the love in the world can't alter timing.

You could have told me earlier." "You seemed so serious about the game. I didn't want to bother you.

It's like the Boy Scouts' motto, be prepared. You've got to be ready when the moment is offered. If you're not, you can actually screw it up for life.

You just have to be smart and know where you're at within the game and find the right time to be aggressive and take a shot. If it's not the right time, then move on to the next down.

If there's a great opportunity, obviously we're going to do it early. But the main thing is, you want to do great moves when they are available. But often the best move is not a move that is done right away.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don't know quite when to do it. My mum says, 'There's never a right time; you've just got to get on with it'.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

After I'd met her, a mutual friend prompted me to ask her out for dinner, but she said she had a night shoot. I thought it was her gentle way of rejecting me. The next day she invited me for a drink at the Pierre hotel, which turned into a three-hour talk.

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.

I don't think anyone ever turns down their national team opportunity, but I think it has to be at the right time.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

We don't have to do a single thing until you're ready.

Leave the thought, it will surface when it's ready

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

Erections could be like cops: often there when you emphatically didn't require them and sometimes absent when you did. Or so I have been told by friends who thought they could trust me.

Charlotte, meanwhile, has peeked into the oven and then closed its door again, announcing, 'twenty more minutes' with the absolute confidence of a great chef, which by God she isn't.

Too late. It's hatched.

You did not have to be the first company to produce the new kind of machine; sometimes, in fact, it was better not to be the first. But you had to produce yours before the new market really opened up and customers had made other marriages. For once they are lost, both old and prospective customers are often gone for good.

There will be other ways you can make your mark. Ways that are as satisfying, with far less risk. You only need to be patient, and ready to grasp opportunities when they come." - Lord Rothen

It is often wiser not to fight at all than attack before victory is sure'